Details
Title Richard Johnson shooting Mrs. Ursula Newman.
Publisher [Philadelphia? : s.n.]
Date [1845?]
Physical description 1 print : engraving ; 7.7 x 11.5 cm
Description Full-length figure of a woman with her right arm raised above her head as she collapses on a sofa; she is being shot by a man standing near her; two boys run toward the door, and a young woman standing near the door stares with her mouth open and her hands clasped near her chest.
Notes In Brooke, H.K. Tragedies on the land (Philadelphia, 1845), p. 129.
Ursula Newman, of New York City, was shot on November 20, 1828, by her common-law husband Richard Johnson, in the presence of her three children (her daughter Rachel and two sons). Johnson had just learned that the landlord had taken the equipment from his home printing office for back rent. That very day, he had returned from Genesee County, where he had picked up the infant that had been born to Mrs. Newman (at the home of the brother of her previous husband in August 1827).
Genre Portrait prints -- 1840-1849.
Engravings -- 1840-1849.
Subject Women.
Newman, Ursula, -1828 -- Portraits.
Newman, Rachel -- Portraits.
Crime scenes.
Murders -- New York (State) -- New York.