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Elizabeth Fry is seated at a table in a large room surrounded by men and women prisoners listening to her. Etching and aquatint.
Wellcome Collection

Elizabeth Fry is seated at a table in a large room surrounded by men and women prisoners listening to her. Etching and aquatint.

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: "An hour in Newgate". Exhibiting Mrs Fry and her friends:- as published by the Quakers.

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