
Dr. James Appleton of Salem, Massachusetts
1808 · Hollow cut paper
Sheet: 4 1/2 × 3 11/16 in. (11.5 × 9.4 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Angela Cannings was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the UK in 2002 for the murder of her seven-week-old son, Jason, who died in 1991, and of her 18-week-old son Matthew, who died in 1999. Her first child, Gemma, died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in 1989 at the age of 13 weeks, although she was never charged in connection with Gemma's death.
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