Mrs. Elizabeth Woodcock

Description

Title: Mrs. Elizabeth Woodcock
Contributor: Hatt, John, active 1830-1839, publisher.
Published / Created: [29 July 1849]
Publication Place: Cambridge [England]
Publisher: Published May 29th, 1799, republished by J. Hatt, Peas Hill, July 29th, 1849, proprietor of the Views of Cambridge &c.
Abstract: "Elizabeth Woodcock shown as found when rescued, seated three-quarter length to front, surrounded by snow, with head turned slightly to look to left, hands touching; in frame, with tablet below, and border of vertical and horizontal lines."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Six lines of text below title, which give an account of her ordeal: A married woman 42 years of age, of Impington, a village 3 miles north of Cambridge, lost her way in returning home from market, on Saturday evening, Feby. 2d, 1799, & was buried 7 feet deep in the snow. ...
Description based on an imperfect impression; sheet cut into two pieces that are pasted together on an album sheet, one trimmed closely around portrait (with loss of frame and border) and the other closely around title and the six lines of text below (with loss of imprint statement). Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1912,0819.24.
Mounted on an album sheet; satirical print "A famous cook!" by C.J. Grant on verso.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; May 2025.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 20.5 x 14.4 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English