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Giving up the ghost or one too many.
1756-1827
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Metadata
- Publisher
- [London] : [s.n.], n.d.
- People
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- Related Name
- Newton, Richard, II, 19th century
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Subject
- Caricature
- Death (Personification)—Caricatures and cartoons
- Physician and patient—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Undertakers and undertaking—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Deathbeds—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Occupations—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Giving up the ghost or one too many.
- Call Number
- D North 52/GC112/Box 08/Normal/Prints/Titles Fo-H GA 2014.00260
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/v692tf30h
- Publisher
- [London] : [s.n.], n.d.
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1756-1827
- Extent
- 1 item ; sheet 27 x 36.5 cm.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
- References
- Grego II, p. 267 (1813?)
- Tegg no. 292
- See call no. R1785e, vol. 3 and vol. 10
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
- Signed in plate, lower left: "R. Newton del.".
- Signed in plate, lower right: "Rowlandson fecit".
- Depiction: Stretched on a poor pallet, in a bare chamber, lies a wretched sufferer. By his side, sleeping in an armchair, is a lace- ruffled and powdered doctor, in whose pocket appears a dose labelled Final. An undertaker, in professional weeds, is coming in at the door, with his crape-bound mute's wand in his hand, and a coffin strapped on his shoulder. The ghostly personification of Death, as a skeleton, holding up his hour-glass, is pointing his dart through the latticed window. Bearing the well-known lines: I purge, I bleeds, I sweats 'em.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Caricature
- Death (Personification)—Caricatures and cartoons
- Physician and patient—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Undertakers and undertaking—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Deathbeds—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
- Occupations—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 1
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4de2cd38-60df-49c6-92ef-2073083fa5bb/manifest