Lovat's ghost on pilgrimage [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Lovat's ghost on pilgrimage [graphic]
- Creator
- Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
- Contributor
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
- Published / Created
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, June 15th 1747 [i.e. not before 1794?]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- R. Faulder and J. Egerton?
- 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."; the lefy side is also inscribed "To the memory ofThomas Lord Fraser of Lovat."
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Re-issue after plate cut down, removing Molteno's publication address?
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 to plate mark.
Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed), p. 306.
Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 147.
Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Spurious. Not in Mr. Nichols's book.
On page 179 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 23.6 x 33.6 cm. - Provenance
- George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 23.7 x 33.6 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Etchings England London 1747
Satires (Visual works) England 1794 - Material
- mezzotint with etching ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667 or 1668-1747
- Subject (Topic)
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Grim Reaper (Symbolic character)
Monks
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Sarcophagi
Skull & crossbones - Subjects
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Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667 or 1668-1747 > Caricatures and cartoons
Grim Reaper (Symbolic character)
Monks
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Sarcophagi
Skull & crossbones
England > London > 1747
England > 1794
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 11461711
- Object ID (OID)
- 16194139
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