Details
Title James Bishop beating his wife.
Alternate title [James Bishop beating his wife to death, with maid and infant looking on]
Publisher [New York : s.n.]
Date [1845?]
Physical description 1 print : wood engraving ; 10.4 x 8.8 cm.
Description Full-length portraits of the four figures in a bedroom.
Notes In Serious almanac, 1845-’46 (1845), p. [15].
James Bishop was hanged on March 17, 1843, in Essex County, New York.
This image also appears in Confessions, trials, and biographical sketches of the most cold-blooded murderers (Hartford, 1854), p. 417, and the later edition of this work, The trail of blood (New York, 1860), p. 417.
Genre Engravings -- 1840-1849.
Portraits prints -- 1840-1849.
Subject Bishop, James, Mrs. -- Portraits.
Violent deaths.
Murder victims.
Women.
Crime scenes.