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Auction House:
Auction Location:
Sydney
Date:
31-May-2026
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Description:
Frederick Bailey Deeming (1853-1892) Serial Killer Hanged. Pencil sketch by George Rossi Ashton (1857–1942) depicting English serial killer, Deeming on the scaffold at old Melbourne Gaol. The drawing served as a preliminary study for the illustration of the hanging published in the Bulletin, Vol. 12, no. 641, 28 May 1892 (45×29.5 cm). Together with a carte de visite photograph of Deeming wearing a long coat and top hat, with a handwritten brief account of his life and crimes verso (15×7 cm). Provenance: collection late Kenneth F. Russell (1911-1987), Professor of Anatomy and medical history, University of Melbourne.
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Category:
Unclassified