Lady Frederick Campbell.
Publish'd Sept.r 14.th 1784, by J.K.Sherwin, Engraver to his Majesty, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, No. 28, St James's Street, and Sold by W. Hinton No. 5, Sweetings Alley, Royal Exchange, London.
Stipple. Plate 348 x 234mm. 13¾" x 9¼". Very fine.
Mary Meredith (d.1807), wife of Lord Frederick Cambell, her second husband. She became famous for obtaining a divorce from her first husband, Laurence Shirley (1720-60), 4th Earl Ferrers, on the grounds of cruelty. Ferrers became the last peer to be hanged, for the muder of his steward, who is said to have stood witness for his wife in the divorce. Ferres was hanged at Tyburn, cursing his wife that she should experience a death more painful than his own. She died a very torturous death, in a fire in the tower of Combe Bank, after which all that could be found of her a bone of her thumb. Her ghost is said to still haunt the grounds.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection.
[Ref: 9205] £260.00
Stipple. Plate 348 x 234mm. 13¾" x 9¼". Very fine.
Mary Meredith (d.1807), wife of Lord Frederick Cambell, her second husband. She became famous for obtaining a divorce from her first husband, Laurence Shirley (1720-60), 4th Earl Ferrers, on the grounds of cruelty. Ferrers became the last peer to be hanged, for the muder of his steward, who is said to have stood witness for his wife in the divorce. Ferres was hanged at Tyburn, cursing his wife that she should experience a death more painful than his own. She died a very torturous death, in a fire in the tower of Combe Bank, after which all that could be found of her a bone of her thumb. Her ghost is said to still haunt the grounds.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection.
[Ref: 9205] £260.00