Illustration from The Life of George Barnwell by Edward Litt Laman Blanchard, 1841
1840’s
Silent Sundays: Resurrectionists (1847)
1847 illustration by Hablot Knight Browne of resurrectionists John Holmes and Peter Williams unearthing cadavers, from The Chronicles of Crime; Being A Series of Memoirs and Anecdotes of Notorious Characters Who Have Outraged the Laws of Great Britain from the Earliest Period… Read More ›
Silent Sundays: The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (1843)
Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, John Leech’s 1843 engraving for A Christmas Carol Related Posts: – Silent Sundays: Weird Tales Magazine (1932) – “Hallows’ E’en” by Winifred M. Letts – Silent Sundays: Red Riding Hood (1883)
