The New Newgate calendar: or, Malefactor's bloody register: containing authentic and circumstantial accounts of the lives transactions, exploits, trials, executions, dying speeches, confessions, and other curious particulars, relating to all the most notoriuos criminals (of both sexes) and violators of the laws of their country, who have sufered death and other exemplary punishments, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the commencement of the year 1700, to the present time ... Vol. 3
Samuel Wale
(English, died in 1786)
Robert Dodd
(English, 1748–1816)
about 1773
Medium/TechniqueIllustrated book
DimensionsOverall: 21.1 x 13.4 x 2.7 cm (8 5/16 x 5 1/4 x 1 1/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild
Accession number2015.63.3
On View
Not on viewClassificationsIllustrated books
Collections
ProvenancePossibly Charles Rugge Price (b. 1801 - d. 1866), 3d Bt. of Spring Grove, Richmond, Surrey [see note 1]. 1938, Alphonse de Rothschild (b. 1878 - d. 1942) and Clarice de Rothschild (b. 1894 - d. 1967), Vienna; 1938, confiscated from Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild by Nazi forces [see note 2]; probably about 1948, returned to Clarice de Rothschild, New York; by descent to her daughter, Bettina Looram de Rothschild (b. 1924 - d. 2012); about 1990/1992, given by Bettina Looram de Rothschild to members of her family; 2015, gift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 25, 2015)
NOTES:
[1] The book is stamped with an image that closely resembles his armorial bookplate, but whether it comes from his collection, or that of a family member, is not known.
[2] With the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March, 1938, the possessions of Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild were seized and expropriated almost immediately by Nazi forces. The precise fate of the book during the Nazi era is not known, but it was in the possession of Clarice de Rothschild again following World War II.
NOTES:
[1] The book is stamped with an image that closely resembles his armorial bookplate, but whether it comes from his collection, or that of a family member, is not known.
[2] With the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March, 1938, the possessions of Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild were seized and expropriated almost immediately by Nazi forces. The precise fate of the book during the Nazi era is not known, but it was in the possession of Clarice de Rothschild again following World War II.
