Matthew Lovat, crucified himself at Venice, July 1805. Lovat, a shoemaker, castrated himself with his tools in 1802, and later nailed himself to a cross out a window in 1805. He died in a lunatic asylum in April 1806. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper from Henry Wilson and James Caulfield’s Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869.

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