James Cook the Murderer of Mr Paas at Leicester. Vivant.
W. Wadsworth 7 Vinegar Yard, Dury Lane.
Etching. Sheet 265 x 165mm (10½ x 6½"). Trimmed within plate, notched in top left edge.
A full-length portrait of murderer James Cook (1811-32), standing looking down with a horrified expression, holding a hat with both hands, wearing short open double-breasted jacket, waistcoat and neckerchief tied in a bow. Cook, a 21-year old bookbinder, owed John Pass (originally Paas), an engraver and bookbinders' toolmaker, money. When Pass called to collect, Cook killed him and attempted to hide the crime by dismembering Pass and trying to burn the limbs. Cook was hung and gibbetted in Leicester: so many visitors came to view the body that the Home Office intervened, ordering it removed. This was the last recorded gibbeting in England.
[Ref: 62110] £140.00
Etching. Sheet 265 x 165mm (10½ x 6½"). Trimmed within plate, notched in top left edge.
A full-length portrait of murderer James Cook (1811-32), standing looking down with a horrified expression, holding a hat with both hands, wearing short open double-breasted jacket, waistcoat and neckerchief tied in a bow. Cook, a 21-year old bookbinder, owed John Pass (originally Paas), an engraver and bookbinders' toolmaker, money. When Pass called to collect, Cook killed him and attempted to hide the crime by dismembering Pass and trying to burn the limbs. Cook was hung and gibbetted in Leicester: so many visitors came to view the body that the Home Office intervened, ordering it removed. This was the last recorded gibbeting in England.
[Ref: 62110] £140.00