2-619-109 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

A broadside of 1754 reporting on the case of Elizabeth Canning'. Elizabeth Canning (1734-1773) was an English maidservant who claimed to have been kidnapped and held against her will in a hayloft for almost a month. She became a central figure to one of the most famous English criminal mysteries of the 18th century. From The Connoisseur Volume XLIII [Otto Limited, London, 1915.]