print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.7492
- Title
- Object: The Ghost Story
- Description
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Rustic interior, where a man wearing a dark suit and top hat is sitting on the left, gesturing with one hand as he tells a ghost story to a young man in a smock who sits opposite, leaning forward with his elbows on the table, with an expression of fascinated terror; an elderly couple grouped between them listen with incredulity and amusement, and a little girl sitting at the foot of the stairs behind to right pauses in the middle of lifting a spoon to her mouth; after Liverseege; with open letters. 1835
Hand-coloured mezzotint with etching
- Production date
- 1835
- Dimensions
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Height: 238 millimetres
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Width: 280 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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The Lennox-Boyd database records also a state with the title in fine italic letters
Issued as part of a set of engravings from the work of Liverseege (1832-1835). See P&D 165.b.28 for bound set with memoir.
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This print was acquired for reference purposes only. Its condition is so poor that it cannot be displayed.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.7492
