print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 2001,0520.37
Title: Object: Laying a Ghost!!
Description: Satire: parson, with two men, exorcising ghost in field. 1 October 1792 Hand-coloured etching and aquatint
Producer name: Print made by: Richard Newton; After: George Moutard Woodward; Published by: William Holland
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Production date: 1792
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; aquatint; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 357 millimetres; Width: 248 millimetres
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Curator's comments: One of a group of two-shilling prints of ghosts published by Holland on 1 October 1792 (Alexander 65-69); see also Alexander 1.
Bibliographic references: Alexander 1998 / Richard Newton and English caricature in the 1790s (66); BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2006 Feb-May, London, Tate Britain, 'Gothic Nightmares:...
Subjects: satire; ghost
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Previous owner
Acquisition date: 2001
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 2001,0520.37
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