Michael McGarvey [sic] beating his wife to death. Women. M’Garvey, Michael, Mrs. -- Portraits. Crime scenes. Uxoricides. Murders -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. 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. 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. [Philadelphia? : s.n.] [1845?] Portrait prints -- 1840-1849. Engravings -- 1840-1849. 1 print : engraving ; 7.6 x 11.5 cm Islandora:13837