Elizabeth Brownrigg: her skeleton displayed in a niche at Surgeons' Hall, Old Bailey, London. Engraving.

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Elizabeth Brownrigg: her skeleton displayed in a niche at Surgeons' Hall, Old Bailey, London. Engraving. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Elizabeth Brownrigg, midwife to St Dunstan's Workhouse, Fetter Lane, was hanged on 14 September 1767 for cruelty and murder: she had tortured three girl apprentices, and killed one of them, who lived in her house in Fetter Lane, London

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[London]

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1 print : engraving ; image 14.9 x 9.4 cm

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The skeleton of Elizb. Brownrigg, in Surgeon's Hall.

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Wellcome Collection 38393i

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