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The ghost

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Charles Williams
active 1797-1830

The ghost

[London] : Pubd May 15 1799 by SW Fores 50 Piccadilly, [1799]
etching, hand colored
image: 280 x 402 mm; sheet: 301 x 422 mm
Peel 2270
Notes
Tentatively attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum online catalog; formerly attributed to Charles Ansell by George; the design is either the inspiration for or a reworking of a caricature print by Isaac Cruikshank, also published in May of 1799.
Trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Print shows the Prince and Miss Gubbins (later Honor Dutton) lying in a four poster bed; they are confronted by the ghost of the Duke of Cumberland, who stands at the foot of the bed at left, wearing a shirt and boots with no pants; he points at them with his Marshal's staff, saying "most noble youth, I am thy Uncles Ghost, Doom'd for a certain time to walk at night, and win the Fates; shake off the Traitorous Crew that lurk around thy Table; expose thier treacherous schemes, inform the ruling powers what plots and treasons deep they meditae [sic] against the State; and thus by one bold patriotic deed restore Brittania's darling Son; then shall the sentence be revers'd and------shall live again"; the Miss Gubbins hides her head under the bedclothes, as she says "Oh' Dear what's the Matter if this is the Amusements of high Life I wish I was in the Crescent again", the Prince sits up with a goblet of wine in one hand as he brandishes a bottle at the ghost in the other, saying "Hush Gub dont be alarmed the Old Boy is only come for some more Burgundy".

Associated names
Ansell, Charles, active 1784-1796, Formerly attributed to.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department