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Elizabeth Canning

Also known as: Elizabeth Canning; primary name: Canning, Elizabeth
Details: individual; British; Female
Life dates: 1734-1773
Biography: London scullery maid whose alleged kidnapping caused a sensation in 1753. She was transported to Connecticut for perjury in 1754. Many prints, pamphlets, etc. were published dealing with aspects of her story.
Bibliography: See J. Treherne, 'The Canning Enigma', 1989 S.O'Connell, 'London 1753' (BM, exhib. cat., 2003), pp.81-6.

41 related objects

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1851,0308.163 |
Producer name: BIOG51648 Drawn by:Thomas Worlidge |
Production date: 1753-1766

print; satirical print

Title: Truth will come out or Miss in her Month |
Museum number: 1871,0610.481 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1753

print; satirical print

Title: The P-nt-ry Race, or The City Jockies |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3963 |
Producer name: Attributed to:Anthony WalkerPublished by:Mary Cooper |
Production date: 1754 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The giant-factotum amusing himself. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6587 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Promis'd horrors of the French invasion, -or- forcible reasons for negotiating a regicide peace |
Museum number: 1868,0808.13658 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1796 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Betty Canning revived :-or- a peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires, & the Gypsey family. |
Museum number: J,4.89 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Promis'd Horrors of the French Invasion, or Forcible reasons for negotiating a regicide peace |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6554 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1796 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Jumpedo and Canning in Newgate, or the Bottle and the Pitcher met |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3976 |
Producer name: Print made by:Anthony WalkerPublished by:Fenwick Bull |
Production date: 1754 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The British Inquisition or Common Sence in Danger / Oh thou Head of the Wrongheads |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3977 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1754

print; satirical print

Title: The Liveryman's Levee |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3956 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1754

print

Title: Elizabeth Canning |
Museum number: 1927,1126.1.26.98 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1800-1820

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1927,1126.1.26.95 |
Producer name: BIOG192064 Published by:Robert Baldwin I |
Production date: 1754 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1927,1126.1.26.92 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1753-1760

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The true Pictures of / Elizabeth Canning and Mary Squires. |
Museum number: 1929,0208.8 |
Producer name: BIOG236944 Print made by:B Cole |
Production date: 1753-1760

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1927,1126.1.26.96 |
Producer name: BIOG236692 Print made by:R Cole |
Production date: 1754 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The true Pictures of / Elizabeth Canning and Mary Squires. |
Museum number: 1851,0308.164 |
Producer name: BIOG236692 Print made by:R Cole |
Production date: 1754 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Elizabeth Canning |
Museum number: K,67.87 |
Producer name: Print made by:James McArdellAfter:William Smith of Chichester |
Production date: 1754

print

Title: Elizabeth Canning |
Museum number: 1859,0806.15 |
Producer name: BIOG51648 Print made by:Thomas Worlidge |
Production date: 1754

print

Title: Elizabeth Canning |
Museum number: 1851,0308.161 |
Producer name: BIOG51648 Print made by:Thomas Worlidge |
Production date: 1754

print

Title: Elizabeth Canning |
Museum number: 1950,0520.181 |
Producer name: Print made by:James McArdellAfter:William Smith of Chichester |
Production date: 1754

print; satirical print

Title: The Conjurers 1753 |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3935 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1753

print; satirical print

Title: A True Draught of Eliz Canning, with the House she was confined in, also the Gypsies Flight, and Con |
Museum number: 1851,0308.168 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1753

print

Title: Elizabeth Canning at the house of Mother Wells at Enfield Wash |
Museum number: 1851,0308.166 |
Producer name: BIOG148374 Published by:William Herbert |
Production date: 1753 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Betty Canning revived :-or- a peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires, & the Gypsey family. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6023 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Promis'd Horrors of the French Invasion,-or-Forcible reasons for negociating a Regicide Peace. Vide |
Museum number: 1851,0901.823 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1796 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Elizabeth Canning. |
Museum number: 1850,0810.218 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1754

print; satirical print

Title: English credulity of the chevelere Morret taking a French leave |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5367 |
Producer name: BIOG50753 Published by:William Wells |
Production date: 1784

print; broadside

Title: Elizabeth Canning, drawn from the life, as she stood at the bar to receive her sentence in the Sessi |
Museum number: 1935,0413.102 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1754

print; broadside

Title: Elizabeth Canning, drawn from the life, as she stood at the bar to receive her sentence in the Sessi |
Museum number: 1851,0308.162 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1754

print; satirical print

Title: The City Up and Down or the Candidates Poiz'd |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3953 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1754

print

Title: Elizabeth Canning |
Museum number: 1851,0308.160 |
Producer name: Print made by:Louis Philippe BoitardPublished by:Thomas Bowles II |
Production date: 1754 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: A plan of Susanna Wells's House at Enfield Wash ... |
Museum number: 1851,0308.169 |
Producer name: After:John DonowellPublished by:John Tinney |
Production date: 1754 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Elizabeth Canning |
Museum number: 1927,1126.1.26.97 |
Producer name: Published by:R S KirbyPublished by:J Scott |
Production date: 1803 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Elizabeth Canning |
Museum number: 1850,0810.219 |
Producer name: Print made by:Louis Philippe BoitardPublished by:Thomas Bowles II |
Production date: 1754 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A sceene of sceenes |
Museum number: 1851,0308.167 |
Producer name: Print made by:John JunePublished by:T Fox |
Production date: 1754 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: English credulity, or the invisible ghost |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4160 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1762

print; satirical print

Title: The Naked Truth, or, the sweet little angel turned out forlorn |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6021 |
Producer name: Print made by:William DentPublished by:James Aitken |
Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Committee of 6 Aldermen |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3940 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1753 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The giant-factotum amusing himself. |
Museum number: 1851,0901.839 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Betty Canning revived :-or- a peep at the conjuration of Mary Squires, & the Gypsey family. |
Museum number: 1851,0901.514 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1851,0308.165 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1753-1760

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