English Credulity,Invisible Ghost,1762,Crock Lane Ghost,Superstition,London

Title: English credulity, or the invisible ghost
Date Created/Published: [England : s.l., 1762 Jan. or later]
Summary: 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 in a bed where the ghost of Fanny Lynes, carrying a mallet (used to make knocking sounds) appears on the bedstead head-cloth. One minister looks under the bed while several women stand to the side of the bed.
Notes:
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / prepared by Frederic George Stephens, v. 4, no. 3838
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Superstitions--1760-1770.
Ghosts--England--London--1760-1770.
Etchings--Hand-color--1760-1770.
Satires (Visual works)--British--1760-1770.
Bookmark /2006682163/
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