print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 2001,0520.13
Title: Object: Tumbling over a Ghost !
Description: Satire: man and old woman in graveyard at night, falling over ghost crouching on ground. 6 February 1795 Hand-coloured etching
Producer name: Print made by: Richard Newton; After: Richard Newton; Published by: William Holland
School/style
Production date: 1795
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 332 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 266 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Alexander 1998 / Richard Newton and English caricature in the 1790s (154); BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; ghost
Acquisition name
Funder name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 2001
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 2001,0520.13
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