Title

'Place of Execution, Old Smithfield'

Caption

'Place of Execution, Old Smithfield', 1890. The Marian Martyrs, protestants slaughtered under Queen Mary, met their demise at the Elms in Smithfield, also the site of William Wallace?s execution in 1305. Heretics were burned at the stake. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. IV - Modern History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]

Date

1890

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F24_384

Model release

Non

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

62.2Mo (5.1Mo) / 43.6cm x 35.7cm / 5154 x 4221 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors England people male group job man men old aged arts country book guy occupation preparation view British English death location century city of london vista Britain profession preparing literature concept bundle B&W MONOCHROME preparations Day execution 19th century black & white black and white background people B W executioner nineteenth century history historic The Print Collector heresy heretic Smithfield TGN outside burned at the stake engraving Unknown Cassells Edmund Co Cassell & Co Edmund Ollier Ollier Heretics Cassell and Company Ltd Cassell & Company Cassell & Cassell's Illustrated Universal History modern history engraving