Elizabeth Fry is seated at a table in Newgate Prison, London, surrounded by women prisoners listening to her. Etching and aquatint.

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37722i
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1 print : etching, with aquatint ; image 10.2 x 17.5 cm

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"An hour in Newgate". Exhibiting Mrs Fry and her friends:- as published by the Quakers.

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Not in: Wilfred Whitten, Quaker pictures, London: Edward Hicks jun.r, 1892
Deanna Lynn Matheuszik, The angel paradox: Elizabeth Fry and the role of gender and religion in nineteenth-century Britain, PhD thesis, Vanderbilt University 2013 (on "An hour in Newgate")

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Wellcome Collection 37722i

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