[The little gray man] [art original] / BG [monogram] 1801.

Creator:

Greatheed, Bertie, 1759-1826, artist.

Published/Created:

[England],
[1801]

Physical Description:

1 drawing : brown ink and sepia wash on artist board ; sheet 263 x 201 mm

Related Links:

http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitemg.asp?itemid=lwlpr31158

Notes:

Title devised by cataloger.
Inscribed by the artist with the date and his initials in lower left corner.
In an unidentified hand on verso: "Drawn by Bertie Greatheed w[hen] twenty years old for E[arl] N[...]".
Trimmed on left and lower edges with loss of text on verso. Remnants of old album mounts on verso.
Purchased from Maggs, August 2011.

Abstract:

Wash drawing showing "The Little Gray Man" on his gibbet-wheel as a monkey seated on the chest of a corpse with the dying lovers, Leopold and Mary-Ann, below. Written on the verso, in ink, three verses from Matthew Gregory Lewis's "Tales of wonder, The little gray man" published in 1801.

Topics:

Death.
Fear.
Horror tales.

Topics:

Lewis, M. G.--(Matthew Gregory),--1775-1818.--Tales of wonder--Illustrations.

Language:

English

Genre:

Wash drawings--British--19th century.

Format:

Image

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

Drawings
G786
no. 1
Drawings G786 no. 1 Box D120

Orbis Record:

9928489

Yale Collection:

LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr31158

OID:

15960395

PID:

digcoll:2796664