The 'London Burkers': John Bishop (left), Thomas Williams (centre) and James May (right). Photograph after the 1831 original engraving.

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1900-1999
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561778i
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The 'London Burkers': John Bishop (left), Thomas Williams (centre) and James May (right). Photograph after the 1831 original engraving. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The subjects known as the 'London Burkers' were convicted in 1831 of the murder of a victim for the purposes of dissection

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1900-1999

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1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 9.9 x 16.2 cm

Lettering

John Bishop, Thomas Head alias Williams, James May Lettering: signatures beneath each subject on original engraving

References note

Tony Gould (ed.), Cures and curiosities: inside the Wellcome Library, London 2007, p. 91

Reference

Wellcome Collection 561778i

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Copy photograph after the original engraved frontispiece to the publication The history of the London Burkers 1831

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