print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 2001,0520.17
- Title
- Object: One Too Many
- Description
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Five naval officers drinking in a wine-cellar are startled and terrified at the apparition of a ghost in armour who has joined the party and sits (left) in profile to the right, leaning forward and drinking with concentration. The five men are much caricatured, with goggling eyes and distorted mouths. They sit on stools behind a circular table on which are decanters, glasses, and a lighted candle. Behind them three large wine-bottles stand on trestles. On the left behind the intruder are the cellar stairs leading down from a closed door, with the key in the lock. Cf. BMSat 7614. 10 November 1792
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint
- Production date
- 1794
- Dimensions
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Height: 356 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 473 millimetres (trimmed)
- $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', VI, 1938)
Mutilated; title missing, the word 'Many' remains (? One too many). .
(Supplementary information)
A pair to Alexander 79. This print was priced at 4 shillings in Holland's 1794 catalogue.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
2006 Feb-May, London, Tate Britain, 'Gothic Nightmares:...'
- Acquisition date
- 2001
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2001,0520.17
