print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1861,0518.1064
- Title
- Object: The ghosts, or Mrs. Duffy and Mrs. Cruckshanks
- Description
-
Heading to a printed song: 'Written by T. Dibdin, Esq. - Sung by Mr. Fawcett, at Covent-Garden Theatre'. A soldier with bayoneted musket, behind battlements, flees in horror from two spectres in white, one without a head, the other removing her head. They are the ghosts of his wife, Mrs. Duffy, and of her rival, Mrs. Cruckshanks. The first of seven verses:
'In vonderful times like these here,
Ven the French are agog for invasion,
And every true-bred volunteer
Vil turn out if so be there's occasion;
Ven Bony himself can affright,
And our corps are all day at their postes
It's hard to be scar'd in the night,
And all by a parcel of ghostes. - Sing fal la, &c.' 25 March 1805
Etching with stipple and letterpress
- Production date
- 1805
- Dimensions
-
Height: 169 millimetres (platemark)
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Width: 246 millimetres (platemark)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)
Cf BMSats 10424, 10500.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1861
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1861,0518.1064