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City of the Gallows: Art and Execution in Eighteenth-Century London

City of the Gallows: Art and Execution in Eighteenth-Century London

Gamer, Meredith

Hardcover

CriminologyEuropean ArtBritish History

ISBN10: 1913107523
ISBN13: 9781913107529
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
Published: Jun 30 2026
Pages: 208
Weight: 2.18
Height: 0.74 Width: 8.82 Depth: 10.89
Language: English

The macabre, interwoven histories of art and punishment in eighteenth-century London

Over the course of the eighteenth century, the visual arts in Britain flourished as never before. The nation's first art academies were founded; its first exhibitions of contemporary art were staged; and a vastly expanded public for the arts began to form. This book demonstrates that these developments were intimately linked to another, darker kind of art: the spectacle of capital punishment. Between 1680 and 1820, the number of crimes punishable by death under British law rose dramatically - from roughly fifty to more than two hundred - and at Tyburn, London's main execution ground, dozens of people were hanged each year before thousands of spectators.

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