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Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)

A lady receiving her last rites at the gallows while an executioner places a noose around her neck, with a coffin in the foreground
signed 'Rowlandson' (lower right)
watercolour and ink on paper
18 x 15cm



The present composition appears to be closely related to Rowlandson's watercolour of the Execution at Tyburn dated to 1803.

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