print
- Museum number
- 1977,U.507.5
- Title
- Object: The hairy prospect or the devil in a fright.
- Description
-
A woman standing by a bed to left, lifting her skirts up; to right, a hairy and winged devil recoiling in horror at the sight; open door at right.
Etching with stipple
- Production date
- 1800 (c.)
- Dimensions
-
Height: 167 millimetres (trimmed)
-
Width: 104 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
-
- Curator's comments
- For the copper-plate, see 1977,U.491. See also 1977,U.507.3 and 1977,U.507.4.
Lit.: Vic Gatrell, 'City of Laughter' (London, 2006), pp. 390-92.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1977
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1977,U.507.5