Madame Tiquet is about to be beheaded clutching her crucifix with both hands kneeling near the gibbet where her porter has been executed on while the bystanding priest watches the scene with an expression of horror on his face. Line engraving with etching by H.R. Cook after G. Cruikshank.
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Madame Tiquet is about to be beheaded clutching her crucifix with both hands kneeling near the gibbet where her porter has been executed on while the bystanding priest watches the scene with an expression of horror on his face. Line engraving with etching by H.R. Cook after G. Cruikshank.

George Cruikshank

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: Execution of Madame Tiquet & her porter at Paris in 1699 for attempting to assassinate her husband. See page 24. G. Cruikshank del. H.R. Cook sculpt.

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