print;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- 2011,7002.20
- Title
- Object: Preparing for a nightmare
- Description
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Youth holding a knife and fork engrossed in reading a book entitled 'The Night Side of Nature' [1848], a popular Victorian collection of ghost stories by Catherine Crowe, there is supper detritus on the table, a cat peers over a plate upsetting a glass, with a verse beneath warning against reading such a novel; plate taken from the Christmas number of 'The Graphic', 9 December 1878, p.14. 1878.
Colour wood-engraving
- Production date
- 1878
- Dimensions
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Height: 262 millimetres
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Width: 315 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The watercolour, from 1859, is in the same direction and approximate size as the print. It is in a private collection in Brighton (sold from the archive of 'The Graphic', Christie's 8/9 March 1889/128).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Graphic
- Acquisition date
- 2011
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2011,7002.20
