The Melancholy of Petronilla de Meath

Original illustration 

Nib and ink on Arches cotton paper 

300gsm / 140lb

9x7cm / 3.5x2.7in (picture size)

14x12cm / 5.5x4.7in (frame size)

2021 

Housed in a beautiful Florentine wooden gilt/enamel oval frame

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About:

Petronilla de Meath (c. 1300–1324) was the maidservant of Dame Alice Kyteler, a fourteenth century Hiberno-Norman noblewoman. After the death of Kyteler's fourth husband, Kyteler was accused of practicing witchcraft and Petronilla was charged with being one of her accomplices. Petronilla was tortured and forced to proclaim that she and Kyteler were guilty of witchcraft. Petronilla was then flogged and eventually burnt at the stake on 3 November 1324, in Kilkenny.^[1][2] Hers was the first known case in Ireland or Great Britain of death by fire for the crime of heresy.

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