print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 2001,0520.38
Title: Object: The Haunted Cellar
Description: Satire: group of frightened figures bursting through door to cellar, seeing owl perched on barrel. 10 November 1792 Etching and aquatint
Producer name: Print made by: Richard Newton; After: George Moutard Woodward; Print made by: John Hassell (aquatint); Published by: William Holland
School/style: British
Production date: 1792
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: etching; aquatint
Dimensions: Height: 371 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 495 millimetres (trimmed)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: A pair to Alexander 80.
Bibliographic references: Alexander 1998 / Richard Newton and English caricature in the 1790s (79); 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: Purchased from: Kit Monkman
Funder name: With contribution from: British Museum Friends
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Kenneth Monkman
Acquisition date: 2001
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 2001,0520.38
Conservation: Treatment: 20 Jun 2002

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