Sujet
'E Canning vindicated or Mr S-sy Gypsies Flight to Enfield Wash', c1753. Artist: Unknown
Légende
'A True Draught of Eliza Canning. E Canning vindicated or Mr S-sy Gypsies Flight to Enfield Wash', c1753. In 1753, Elizabeth Canning claimed to have been kidnapped and held at a house in Enfield. She also said that her kidnappers tried to force her to become a prostitute. On her evidence people were arrested, tried and convicted. Mary Squires, a Romany woman, was accused of imprisoning her. Because Squires said she was hundreds of miles away at the time, she was caricatured as a witch on a broomstick, able to be in two places at once. Doubts began to be expressed about her story, the prisoners were released and Elizabeth Canning was charged with perjury, convicted and sentenced to transportation for seven years. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).
The Print Collector collection
Date
30 nov. 1999
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM19C25_070
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,0Mo (7,9Mo) / 32,9cm x 38,1cm / 3887 x 4500 (300dpi)