| Contributor |
Brady, Mathew B., ca. 1823-1896, photographer. |
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Farnham, Eliza W. (Eliza Wood), 1815-1864, ed. |
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Serrell, Edward W. (Edward Wellman), b. 1826, artist. |
| Title |
D.M. |
| Alternate title |
D.M. |
| Publisher |
[New York? : s.n.] |
| Date |
[1846?] |
| Physical description |
1 print : engraving ; 6.8 x 5.9 cm. |
| Description |
Bust-length portrait of the criminal. |
| Notes |
In Sampson, M. B. Rationale of crime and its appropriate treatment; being a treatise on criminal jurisprudence considered
in relation to cerebral organization. Edited by Eliza W. Farnham (Philadelphia, 1846), p. 159.
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“My acknowledgements are due to the officers of the Penitentiary on Blackwell’s Island for their politeness in furnishing
me with facilities for taking the daguerreotypes, and to Mr. L. N. Fowler for aiding me in the selection of cases; nor must
I omit to name Mr. Edward Serrell, who was obliging enough to take the outline drawings for me; or Mr. Brady, to whose indefatigable
patience with a class of the most difficult of all sitters, is due the advantage of a very accurate set of daguerreotypes.”
-- Introductory preface by Mrs. Farnham, p. xx.
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“D.M. has been an inmate of the county prisons of New York, a greater part of the last seven or eight years. She is notoriously
abandoned and profligate; and for the last few years has added intemperance to her other vices. She seems utterly lost to
all sense of decency and to every moral tie of humanity. With all this degradation she possesses a good mind, with much shrewdness
and quickness of perception. The drawing indicates a large development of propensity with fair intellect, but a total destitution
of moral endowment. The scanty development of the coronal region of her head is very striking.”--P. 159.
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| Genre |
Portrait prints -- 1840-1849. |
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Engravings -- 1840-1849. |
| Subject |
D. M. -- Portraits. |
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Women. |
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Phrenology. |
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Criminals -- Portraits. |
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Female offenders -- Portraits. |
