GEORGE BARNWELL MURDER
George Lillo's popular drama THE LONDON MERCHANT, first performed in 1731, in which Barnwell, cajoled by a prostitute, murders his uncle for money, is the first prose tragedy in English
Picture No
10118586
Media ID
47306166
Size
4361px x 3387px
(3.4MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Hand-coloured engraving in The Melancholy History of George Barnwell'
Date
C.1820
