Title:
Shaving a Ghost, frontispiece to Holidays with Hobgoblins and Talk of Strange Things
Creator/Contributor:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; Dudley Costello, author; John Camden Hotten, London, publisher
Date:
1861
Identifier:
1989.21.2060
Format:
Book
Etching
Notes:
The Center has a first edition "Holidays with Hobgoblins and Talk of Strange Things," with original violet cloth binding embossed
with gilt after a design by Cruikshank.
Catalogue Raisonne: Reid 5057; Douglas 286; Cohn 166
Inscription: Recto, in plate below design, "Designed & Etched / by Geo. Cruikshank" and "Shaving / A / Ghost!"
Subject:
barbers; shaving