THE MURDER ACT 1752
Timeline Text: Patrick Low
IMAGE CREDITS
TITLE SLIDE
IMAGE: FOUR STAGES OF CRUELTY. PLATE IV THE REWARD OF CRUELTY. BY WILLIAM HOGARTH. IMAGE COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
SLIDE 1: BARBER SURGEONS
IMAGE: King Henry VIII granting a Royal Charter to the Barber-Surgeons company. Engraving by B. Baron, 1736, after H. Holbein, 1542. Wellcome Images L0010571
SLIDE 2: HANGING NOT PUNISHMENT ENOUGH
IMAGE: title plate FROM Hanging not punishment enough (1701). Anon.
BACKGROUND: Tyburn Tree. c1680. SOURCE NATIONAL ARCHIVES WORK16/376 IMAGE COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS.
SLIDE 3: A NATION AT WAR AND IN DRINK
IMAGE: GIN LANE BY WILLIAM HOGARTH. 1751. WELLCOME IMAGES L0004605
BACKGROUND: Battle of Fontenoy 1745. By Pierre Lenfont. Image courtesy of wikimedia commons.
SLIDE 4: EXECUTING JUSTICE
IMAGE: Portrait sketch of Henry Fielding. The Original image is from a drawing by William Hogarth Hogarth illustration, vol. III by John Ireland. Date taken: March 1798. This drawing in turn was used for a frontispiece engraving for, The Works of Henry Fielding, published in 1762 and engraved by James Basire. Image courtesy of wikimedia commons.
BACKGROUND: Industry and Idleness, Plate 11; The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn. By William Hogarth. Image Courtesy of THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
SLIDE 5: MURDER ACT
IMAGE: FOUR STAGES OF CRUELTY. PLATE IV THE REWARD OF CRUELTY. BY WILLIAM HOGARTH. IMAGE COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
BACKGROUND: Ibid.,
SLIDE 6: THE SURGEON'S KNIFE OR THE GIBBET CAGE
IMAGE: William Hunter (1718-1783) in his museum in Windmill Street on the day of resurrection, surrounded by skeletons and bodies, some of whom are searching for their missing parts. Engraving, 1782. Wellcome Images V0010453
SLIDE 7: GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER
IMAGE: The Jury. By John Morgan. 1861. Image courtesy of wikimedia commons