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1. Lovat's ghost on pilgrimage [graphic]
- Creator:
- Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 May 1788]
- Call Number:
- Kinnaird 90K(a) Box 130
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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."
- Description:
- 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.", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd May 1st 1788, by Malton & Co. No. 132 Pall Mall
- Subject (Name):
- Lovat, Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667 or 1668-1747
- Subject (Topic):
- Grim Reaper (Symbolic character), Monks, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Sarcophagi, and Skull & crossbones
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Lovat's ghost on pilgrimage [graphic]
