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The family of Jean Calas say goodbye to him as he is taken from prison to be executed. Engraving by D. Chodowiecki after himself.
Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801.Date: [1768?]Reference: 37819i- Books
The crimes and horrors of Kelly House : the atrocious case of an American lady, the wife of William Carmichael Smith, Esq. of Sloane Street, Chelsea, paymaster of Exchequer Bills, who had her seized and thrown into a private mad-house upon a false charge, and with a false certificate of her insanity, signed by a man named William Richardson, a surgeon.
Date: [approximately 1980]
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Two men, wrongly confined by Dr George Man Burrows in his lunatic asylum in Clapham, win a legal case against him and force him to flee. Lithograph by W. Heath, 1830.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: [1 February 1830]Reference: 2490817i