I. S. Williams, Littell's Living Age — Volume 115…
“ The thief was no other than the wife of Stothard the artist who went to Bayeux in 1830 in order to execute his well-known copy of the work in question. Mrs. Stothard profited by the courteous facilities granted to her husband for the purpose of his painting to cut with her scissors a piece about as big as a hand from one of the sides of the embroidered cloth. At the death of Mrs Stothard, some years back, the museum of South Kensington became possessed of the stolen piece, together with an account written by. Mr. ”
