The ghost, or, Poor Paddy and the black cat [graphic].

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Title: The ghost, or, Poor Paddy and the black cat [graphic].
Alternative Title: Poor Paddy and the black cat
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [24 January 1801]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 24th Jany. 1801 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: "A man springing out of his bed in a garret with a candle and finding a black cat hissing at him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched above image.
Number 257 in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Plate numbered '257' in lower left corner.
Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.
Some ghosting of text occurs near the bottom of the plate.
Three columns of verse below image: Then gently stepping from his bed, and peeping round, o'erwhelm'd with dread! Behind the door, low couch'd he spies, A huge black cat with saucer eyes! ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. IX; May 9, 1954;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 22 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1801
Engravings England London 1801
Stipple engravings England London 1801
Etchings England London 1801
Material: etching, engraving, and stipple engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Cats
Ghosts
Subjects: Cats
Ghosts
England > 1801
England > London > 1801

Access: Public
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