Title etched below image, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record. Suggested date of ca. 1780?, Plate numbered "76" in lower right corner., Four columns of verse on either side and below title: Prologue. Ladies for you this ample scene I vend, a new invention by your sex's friend ..., Temporary local subject terms: London: Cheapside -- Female dress: petticoats -- Hoops -- Buildings: Long's Warehouse -- Churches: St. Paul's Cathedral., Watermark: Arms of England., and Window mounted to 27 x 36 cm; plate number erased from this impression.
Publisher:
Printed & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, depicted, Balconies, City & town life, Dresses, and Street vendors
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?., and For further information, consult library staff.
