Lovat's ghost on pilgrimage [graphic]

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Title: Lovat's ghost on pilgrimage [graphic]
Creator: Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [1 May 1788]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd May 1st 1788, by Malton & Co. No. 132 Pall Mall
Abstract: In a graveyard with tombstones and sarcophagi, a headless ghost in a monk's robes (crucifix and rosary hanging round his neck) carries his head in his left arm as he walks left toward a sarcophagus inscribed "This monument was erected by Simon Lord Fraser of Lovat &c. &c."
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Lettered below the title, six lines of verse in three sections: "Disguis'd thro' Life, a Layman at [the] Block, My headless Trunk resumes [the] Monkish Frock Doom'd for my Crimes in Pilgrimage to roam. With weary steps I seek my Native Home, Where Vanity inscribes my Father's Tomb, But Justice now denies my Carcase Room."
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., August 1940; Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
Extent: 1 print : sheet 255 x 357 mm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Etchings England London 1788
Material: etching with mezzotint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667 or 1668-1747
Subject (Topic): Grim Reaper (Symbolic character)
Monks
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Sarcophagi
Skull & crossbones
Subjects: Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667 or 1668-1747 > Caricatures and cartoons
Grim Reaper (Symbolic character)
Monks
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Sarcophagi
Skull & crossbones
England > London > 1788
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826 > Ownership

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