Elizabeth Kendall [graphic] / Barbara Broughel. [between 1992 and 1998]

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Elizabeth Kendall [graphic] / Barbara Broughel. [between 1992 and 1998]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/231851698

A drawing of a straw broom with an iron cross for a staff. A clerical collar is wrapped around the top of the broom. Drawing is a symbolic representation of Elizabeth Kendall of Cambridge, Mass. who was convicted of witchcraft and hanged. She was found guilty of causing the death of a neighbor's child.

1 drawing on wove watercolor paper : graphite ; sheet 69 x 36 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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Broughel, Barbara

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This drawing is part of Barbara Broughel's Requiem series in which the artist used brooms and "other modest household objects of early American design" to portray people convicted of witchcraft and executed in seventeenth-century America. These symbolic portraits were based on contemporary court transcripts and represent some aspect of the individuals and/or their accusation. The Requiem series consists of preliminary sketches, 42 objects, and finished graphite drawings of each of the objects. T...

Kendall, Elizabeth Kimball

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