Apollo on Mythryl: “‘When eight men were hanged at Tyburn in March 1755, the artists…”

‘When eight men were hanged at Tyburn in March 1755, the artists were ready.’ Kirsten Tambling praises Meredith Gamer’s original study of the links between art and execution in 18th-century London.

buff.lyThe surprising connection between art and execution in London’s historyAs capital punishment became ubiquitous in the 18th-century, artists were increasingly influenced by the macabre spectacle

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