print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1978,U.1646.(2)
- Title
- Series: Scott's Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
- Description
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An invalid in bed, wearing a night-cap; pointing towards a spectral skull that appears over the shoulder of the well-dressed doctor in attendance; the doctor with an expression of alarm, though the skull is invisible to him; the interior of a bedroom, with a large four-poster bed and the doctor's hat and cane on the side-table; illustration to Scott's "Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft addressed to J. G. Lockhart Esq." (1830)
Etching
- Production date
- 1830 (November)
- Dimensions
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Height: 95 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 145 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft addressed to J. G. Lockhart Esq
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1978,U.1646.(2)
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1891,1116.179