print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.908
- Title
- Object: The Cook in the White Sheet or the Pantry Apparition
- Description
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A group of servants and a dog, around a table decked with cards and lit by a candle, terrified by the ghostly apparition of the cook dressed up in a sheet, who appears at the doorway on the right, a grinning lad behind. 1771
Mezzotint with some etching
- Production date
- 1775
- Dimensions
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Height: 355 millimetres
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Width: 253 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The date, from an impression in the Lennox-Boyd collection, is '2 May, 1771.'
Sale catalogue listings
Carington Bowles, 1784, p. 111 no. 254, priced 1s. plain, 2s. coloured
Carington Bowles, 1790, p. 100 no. 257, same price
Presumably a later re-issue, given the erased date.
- 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
- 2010,7081.908
