[A gown, metamorphose'd into a ghost!!] [art original]

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Title: [A gown, metamorphose'd into a ghost!!] [art original]
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, artist
Published / Created: 1797.
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A man, whose face shows an expression of both fear and surprise, holds a lantern up to a gown hanging on a clothesline. The gown appears to have a human face with a snarling expression
Description: Title from published print based on this drawing.
In ink lower left: Drawing by I. Cruikshank.
Basis for print published as: A gown metamorphose'd into a ghost!!.
See description in British Museum's Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, v. 7, No. 9124.
Isaac Cruikshank, English caricaturist and painter, 1756?-1811?.
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iii.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 32 x 19.5 cm, on sheet 38 x 25.5 cm, mounted on board 44.5 x 35.5 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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Citation: Isaac Cruikshank, A Gown Metamorphose'd into a Ghost!!. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.