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.
