<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Lovat's ghost on pilgrimage [graphic]</dc:title><dc:creator>Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker</dc:creator><dc:date>publish'd according to act of Parliament, June 15th 1747 [i.e. not before 1794?]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>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 &amp;c. &amp;c."; the lefy side is also inscribed "To the memory ofThomas Lord Fraser of Lovat."</dc:description><dc:description>Title etched below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Re-issue after plate cut down, removing Molteno's publication address?</dc:description><dc:description>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.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed to plate mark.</dc:description><dc:description>Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed), p. 306.</dc:description><dc:description>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.</dc:description><dc:description>Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Spurious. Not in Mr. Nichols's book.</dc:description><dc:description>On page 179 in volume 2.  Sheet trimmed to: 23.6 x 33.6 cm.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>