Details
Title Dreadful tragedy.
Alternate title A Dreadful tragedy.
Publisher [New York? : s.n.]
Date [1845?]
Physical description 1 print : engraving ; 8.4 x 9.3 cm.
Notes In Serious almanac, 1845 & '46 (New York, 1845), p. [25].
According to the accompanying article, Julian Gardner answered the door when her husband was not at home. A black man wielding a lighted torch pushed his way in and “with one blow split open the head of Mrs. G. with an axe.”
Probably a fictitious character.
The same image appears in Tragic almanac. 18-46 (1845), p. [13].
Genre Portrait prints -- 1840-1849.
Engravings -- 1840-1849.
Subject Women.
Gardner, Julian -- Portraits.
Fictitious characters.
Murder scenes.
Violent crimes.
Murder victims.