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Wilson, Elizabeth, 1759?-1786.
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Title
Wilson, Elizabeth, 1759?-1786.
Alternate title
[Elizabeth Wilson]
Publisher
[New York? : s.n.]
Date
[1838?]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; 6.4 x 9.9 cm.
Description
Full-length portrait of the the convicted woman, hanging from a gallows, with a figure on horseback in the background.
Notes
In The Pennsylvania hermit (New York, 1838), title page vignette.
Elizabeth Wilson (also known as Harriot Wilson), an unmarried woman, was tried and publicly executed for the murder of her twin infants in Pennsylvania in 1786. According to legend, her brother Amos Wilson arrived with a pardon from the governor immediately after the execution.
Genre
Portrait prints -- 1830-1839.
Engravings -- 1830-1839.
Subject
Crime -- Pennsylvania.
Murder -- Pennsylvania.
Infanticide -- Pennsylvania.
Female offenders -- Pennsylvania.
Unmarried mothers -- Pennsylvania.
Executions and executioners -- Pennsylvania.
Women.
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