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Print made by: Thomas Rowlandson

After: Henry Wigstead
Published by: William Holland
Title
The dead alive!
Description
English: A couple embracing on a couch at right are interrupted by the appearance at left of a grotesque, stout, bespectacled woman holding up a groaning moribund man wearing a shroud-like nightshirt; the young lover has his hand on a paper lettered 'last will & testament of Mr Gripe' hanging over the lid of an open money-chest, full of bags which spill onto the floor, some inscribed with sums of money, one with 'Mortgage on -'; a large, ornately framed picture of a man in Tudor costume on the wall behind at right, bust of a bearded man on a window-ledge at centre. July 1795
Hand-coloured etching with aquatint and stipple
Date 1795
date QS:P571,+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 244 millimetres (trimmed)
Width: 317 millimetres (trimmed)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1948,0214.988
Notes Cut within the design at top and at left, and before the plate number (2) at right; see also another impression of the same plate, 1947,1215.2.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1948-0214-988
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