Lovat's ghost on pilgrimage [graphic] / the original very scarce print of which this is a fac-simile, was added to the collection of Mr. Ireland by Doctr. J. Webster, an intimate friend of Hogarth from whose hands he receiv'd it soon after the execution o

Published/Created:

[London]
Publish'd May 1st 1788, by Malton & Co. No. 132 Pall Mall
[1 May 1788]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with mezzotint on wove paper ; sheet 255 x 357 mm.

Notes:

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.
Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., Edinburgh; August 1940; £20 Kinnaird lot. With Kinnaird bookplate; disbound at Yale.
Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).

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."

Associated Names:

Ireland, Samuel, -1800 [Printmaker]
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Artist]

Topics:

Grim Reaper (Symbolic character)
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826
Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667?-1747
Monks
Sarcophagi
Skull & crossbones
Tombs & sepulchral monuments

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1788

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

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:

Kinnaird 90K(a) Box 130

Orbis Record:

9838028

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22491

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16030832

PID:

digcoll:2807339