Dust doorway door, architecture buildings. - Old house, a remnant of mining ghost town near Deadwood, South Dakota

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Saul speaks with the ghost of Samuel raised by the Witch of Endor; the corpses of Saul and his sons are beheaded by the Philistines

The Descent of the Holy Ghost

Hans Rottenhammer, I (German, Munich, 1564–1625, Augsburg)

The Holy Ghost Surrounded by Angels

Hans Georg Asam (German, Rott am Inn 1649–1711 Sulzbach)

Cartouche with a Crown, the Virgin (?) and the Holy Ghost, and Four Putti

Johann Matthias Kager (German, Munich 1575–1634 Augsburg)

In 1964, Loretta Hines Howard generously presented to the Museum over 140 Neapolitan crèche figures, dating from the second half of the eighteenth century. The varied assortment includes figures from the three ... more

Minamoto Yoshitsune and His Retainer, the Monk Benkei, Putting to Flight the Ghost of Taira no Tomomori

Kuwagata Keisai (Japanese, 1764–1824) Edo period (1615–1868)

English credulity, or the invisible ghost

A satire referring to the "Cock Lane Ghost" shows the interior of a bed-room crowded with men, some church ministers, one possibly Oliver Goldsmith, commenting on the "Cock Lane ghost". Two small children lie i... more

The First Nakamura Nakazo in the Role of the Ghost of Shiragiku

Katsukawa Shunshō (Japanese, 1726–1792) Edo period (1615–1868)

Once Upon a Time (A Book of Ghost Stories) (Imawa mukashi)

Katsukawa Shun'ei (Japanese, 1762–1819) Edo period (1615–1868)

Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus and the Ghost (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 4)

Fascinated by the supernatural, Fuseli found rich subjects in Shakespeare. He was a life-long devotee of the Bard, reading his works as a youth in Zurich, then devising an elaborate mural scheme devoted to admi... more

Familiar ghosts. Sketch 1. Ghost of a village lawyer

Cartoon of a well-dressed man with a large head being kept at a distance by peasant man holding a pitchfork.

Familiar ghosts. Sketch 2. Ghost of the vicar!!

Cartoon of a parson with an astonished expression, looking at a man holding a beer stein and smoking a pipe.

Onoe Matsusuke as the Ghost of the Murdered Wife Oiwa, in "A Tale of Horror from the Yotsuya Station on the Tokaido Road"

Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825) Edo period (1615–1868)

Netsuke of Ghost and Man on His Knees

The Ghost of the King Appearing to Hamlet, Horatio and Guards (Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 4)

Anonymous, French, 19th century

Netsuke of Ghost Trying in Vain to Frighten Blind Man

The ghost of Creusa disappearing from Aeneas near the burning wall of Troy

The intaglio is a fake, one of six in the Museum's collection, similar in style to those supplied by Italian Neoclassical engravers to Prince Stanislaw Poniatowski of Poland. Carried out in a figural style inde... more

Elevation of a wall decorated with the dove of the holy ghost

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise (French, died 1897)

The ghost of a guinea! or the country banker's surprise!! / Woodward, delin.

Print shows a banker astonished by a guinea coin with King George III on it. The banker says, "Surely my eyes do not deceive me--it certainly must be a Guinea!--I declare I have not seen such a thing since I ha... more

A Nun Frightened by a Ghost; Images of Spain Album, 65

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux)

The ghost - a Christmas frolic - le revenant / I.M. Wright pinxt. ; W. Nicolls sculpt.

Print shows a boy with a mannequin ghost holding a candle frightens several guests at an intimate party.

Hamlet Tries To Follow His Father's Ghost

In 1834 Delacroix began a series of lithographs devoted to Hamlet, creating moody images that mirror the troubled psyche of the prince. Choosing key scenes and poetic passages, the artist's highly personal and ... more

New edition of MacBeth. Bank-oh's! Ghost

Another satire on the Panic of 1837, again condemning Van Buren's continuation of predecessor Andrew Jackson's hard-money policies as the source of the crisis. Clay shows the president haunted by the ghost of C... more

The Ghost on the Terrace

Scene from a Ghost Story: The Okazaki Cat Demon

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861) Edo period (1615–1868)

Poems on One Hundred Ghost Stories

Masazumi Ryusai (Japanese, active 19th century) Edo period (1615–1868)

The Ghost in the Stereoscope

Founded in 1854, the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company was a major publisher of stereographs-cards with two nearly identical photographs mounted side by side that can be viewed through a binocular de... more

[Design drawing for stained glass window with abstracted Annunciation with text "Who Was Conceived By The Holy Ghost"]

cover from "Ghost stories and phantom fancies"

This image has been taken from scan 000240 from "Ghost stories and phantom fancies". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British Library's flickr photostream.

[Stereographic View of Paris-Lyon Railroad Tracks with "Ghost" Train Visible When Viewed by Transmitted Light]

Unknown (French)

The ghost! : as produced in the spectre drama, popularly illustrating the marvellous optical illusions ... (Title page)

Toriyama Akinari Terutada with Ghost; (The Lavender Chapter)

Utagawa Yoshiiku (Japanese, 1833–1904) Edo period (1615–1868)

Ichikawa Yonezō as the Ghost of Oiwa

Enjaku (Japanese) Edo period (1615–1868)

The Actor Rouvière in the Role of Hamlet, Recoiling Before the Ghost

The composition was designed for the tomb of the actor Philibert Rouvière in Montmarte Cemetery in Paris. The tomb relief was subsequently stolen. In this cast from the Barbedienne foundry, Préault's signature ... more

ghost from "The 5 Alls. A collection of stories, charades, acrostics ... Edited by T. Hood"

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Holy ghost! with light divine

The ghost illusion fig. 7, page 69

The ghost illusion fig. 10, page 79

Ghost from "Ballads of the Bench and Bar; or, Idle Lays of the Parliament House. [Edited by J. B. Paul and J. J. Reid.]"

This image has been taken from scan 000018 from "Ballads of the Bench and Bar; or, Idle Lays of the Parliament House. [Edited by J. B. Paul and J. J. Reid.]". The title and subject terms of this image have been... more

A Thanksgiving ghost

Florida-- the ghost house--Ft. George Id. / Geo. Barker, photographer, Niagara Falls, N.Y.

Stereograph shows the ruins of a structure, called the "Ghost House," Fort George Island.

The crocodile : a ghost story

Diagrams illustrating the "ghost" machinery

[One-hundred-tale ghost story gathering]

Ukiyo-e print illustration showing people gathered around a charcoal brazier to tell ghost stories, as a man creeps towards a lamp to extinguish one wick after each story, making the room darker and darker.

Ghost Dance of the Sioux Indians in North America

The Ghost dance of the Sioux Indians

The apparation of the ghost of don Juan Manuel to Pachita la Alfajorera

José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913)

Sioux ghost dance /

From Raff & Gammon price list: A very interesting subject, full of action and true to life. From Edison films catalog: One of the most peculiar customs of the Sioux Tribe is here shown, the dancers being genuin... more

engraving from "The Shadow on the Blind, and other ghost stories"

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Ghost dance - Cheyennes & Arapahoes

Cheyenne and Arapahoe people in circle around flagpole, at the Indian Congress of the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition.

Great Oregon caves, the Ghost chamber, Oregon, U.S.A., near the S.P.R.R.

Stereograph showing man with lantern inside cave amid stalagmites and stalagtites.

Pagosa Hot Springs, 45 ft by 75 ft. Largest boiling springs in world. Steam shows; Tame cinnamon bear enjoys hot water at Pagosa; A ghost; In the plunge at Pagosa, in the dense steam, taken by flashlight, three people (Mabel, Downs, Nettie)

[Ghost appearing to farmer with hoe and dog]

Before Reconstruction of Jack Ghost Hawk's House

Photographs

Hotel de Montmorency - 5 rue de Montmorency. (3e arr)

Digital Accession Number: 1981:0955:0032.0001..Maker: Eugène Atget (French, 1857-1927)..Title: Hotel de Montmorency - 5 rue de Montmorency. (3e arr)..Date: 1908..Medium: albumen print..Dimensions: 17.9 x 22.4 c... more