Miss Martha Ray (1742-1779), English singer and actress, mistress to John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. She was shot in the head with a pistol by infatuated admirer/scorned lover and stalker Rev. James Hackman as she climbed into a coach in Covent Garden. Portrait of the actress within a decorative oval border above a vignette of her murder. Copperplate engraving published by Fielding and Walker, Pater Noster Row, London, 1779.

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