Lovat's ghost on pilgrimage / The original of this very scarce print, of which this is a facsimile, was added to the collection of Mr. Ireland by Doctr. J. Webster, an intimate friend of Hogarth from whose hands he receiv'd it soon after the execution of Lord Lovat with an assurance of it's being his own design.

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William Hogarth
1697-1764
Lovat's ghost on pilgrimage / The original of this very scarce print, of which this is a facsimile, was added to the collection of Mr. Ireland by Doctr. J. Webster, an intimate friend of Hogarth from whose hands he receiv'd it soon after the execution of Lord Lovat with an assurance of it's being his own design.
352 x 250 mm, trimmed within plate mark; design: 322 x 193 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 0377
Published: 
[London] : Published by Molton & Co., No. 132 Pall Mall, May 1st 1788.
Notes: 

A facsimile by Ireland of an earlier print, the publication line for which is reproduced under the design: "Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, June 15th 1747". According to Ireland the original design was by Hogarth, but this attribution is not certain.
Not in British Museum?
See under Paulson. Hogarth's Graphic Works (1965), no. 288.

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Hogarth, William
Century: 
18th century
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Drawings and Prints