A sprite curse thee I'll soon spoil thy capering [graphic]

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Title: A sprite curse thee I'll soon spoil thy capering [graphic]
Creator: Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 October 1792]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Octr. 1, 1792, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Abstract: A man wearing in a nightcap leans out a window from the upper story of his cottage and aims a blunderbuss at a ghostly sprite who dances in the yard outside his front door. The man's face is contorted with anger and concentration as he points his gun
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Robert Douwma; January 1994;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 36 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1792
Aquatints England London 1792
Etchings England London 1792
Material: etching & aquatint ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Anger
Dance
Ghosts
Guns
Sleepwear
Subjects: Anger
Dance
Ghosts
Guns
Sleepwear
England > 1792
England > London > 1792

Access: Public
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