Terrour, or, Fright [graphic]

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Title: Terrour, or, Fright [graphic]
Alternative Title: Fright
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [21 January 1800]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Abstract: A young man, three-quarters length (left), screams in horror as he gazes on the apparition (right) with large teeth, wearing a night cap and spectacles (clouded so the eyes are hidden),and whose claw-like hand rests on the young man's shoulder
Description: Title engraved above image.
Plate numbered 'No. 17' in upper right corner.
Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Three lines of text below image: This passion is frequently excited by dressing up frightful objects to represent sprites, apparitions, &c.: frequently practiced with success in country villages, as delineated in the above sketch of the countryman & the ghost.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss vol. viii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 27.2 x 22.2 cm, on sheet 29 x 24 cm
Language: English

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