George Sparks
My Father's Ghost, or Surrender of Right and Title

My Father's Ghost, or Surrender of Right and Title

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My Father's Ghost, or Surrender of Right and Title
ArtistEnglish
CultureEnglish
Titles
  • My Father's Ghost, or Surrender of Right and Title
Date1829
PlaceEngland
MediumLithograph
DimensionsImage: 10 1/4 × 15 3/16 in. (26 × 38.6 cm)
 Sheet: 11 5/8 × 16 5/8 in. (29.5 × 42.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin S. Romansky
Object number75.128
Not on view

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso bottom right in pencil "11-"
printed on sheet below image ""MY FATHERS GHOST or Surrender of Right and Title", bottom left[a drawing of a man peering through a hole] "Peeping Tom Fect", bottom right "Pubd, for the Proprietor by / George Sparks 14 Lambeth Rd."

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