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Title	Mary (Molly) Blandy, before her execution for poisoning her father. Etching, 1752.
Imprint	[London] (on Ludgate Hill) : Printed for B. Dickinson, publish'd pursuant to the statute, Feb. 3, 1752.

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Physical description	1 print : etching ; platemark 33.7 x 22.2 cm
Lettering note	Eight rhyming couplets engraved at foot of plate
Summary	Standing, wearing leg-iron. Mary Blandy killed her father with small doses of arsenic. She was convicted with the aid of evidence from his physician, Anthony Addington, and was hanged at Oxford on 6 April 1752 (Dictionary of national biography)
Cite as	Wellcome Library no. 601048i
Lettering	Miss Molly Blandy who with her own and her sweetheart's contrivance did barbarously and inhumanly poison her own father for his estate. Taken from life in Oxford Castle. With horror heav'n and earth behold / The parricide in murder bold ... Warned by her fate ye children be, / And dread her sad catastrophe.
Topic-LCSH	Poisoners.
	Criminals.
	Prisoners.
Subject name	Blandy, Mary, 1720-1752.
Genre/Technique	Etchings.
Copy photo no.	L 36006
System no.	.b16010486
Record no.	601048i