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Familiar ghosts - sketch 2. Ghost of the vicar!!

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Familiar ghosts - sketch 2. Ghost of the vicar!!

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A full-length, profile figure of a parson with a large head and a bulbous nose who stands with hands raised, as he speaks to a man in modest attire, smoking a long-stemmed pipe and holding a beer stein.
Inscribed above parson: O thou abominable Sot! always tippling from Morning till night.
Inscribed above the drinker: Ah thee mayst preach away Measter Parson but I shanna forget the Ti the pig, for all that! D-e I beant afraid of thee now.
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Preliminary drawing for a print by Isaac Cruikshank, see SWANN - no. 353 (A size), and number 2 in the series, "Familiar Ghosts." The drawing varies from Cruikshank's print in coloring.
Signed, lower left: Woodward Delin.
Title inscribed above and below image.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.741)
Published in: Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Vol. VII 1793-1800 / by Mary Dorothy George. London: The British Museum, Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1942 (entry #9471).

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01/01/1799
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Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
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Library of Congress
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