Details
Title Michael McGarvey [sic] beating his wife to death.
Publisher [Philadelphia? : s.n.]
Date [1845?]
Physical description 1 print : engraving ; 7.6 x 11.5 cm
Description Full-length portrait of a woman, kneeling with her hair tied to a bedpost; a man stands nearby with a whip raised above his head ready to strike her; another woman stares at them from behind an open door.
Notes In Brooke, H.K. Tragedies on the land (Philadelphia, 1845), p. 149.
On November 21, 1828, after a disagreement at their home in Philadelphia, Michael M’Garvey whipped his wife. She died one or two days later.
Genre Portrait prints -- 1840-1849.
Engravings -- 1840-1849.
Subject Women.
M’Garvey, Michael, Mrs. -- Portraits.
Crime scenes.
Uxoricides.
Murders -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.