File:Cock lane room.png

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Cock_lane_room.png (615 × 483 pixels, file size: 243 KB, MIME type: image/png)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents
Description
English: The haunted room at Cock Lane, as seen in MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE Madness of Crowds, 1852
Date
Source Original sketch found in: Mackay, Charles (1852) "Haunted Houses" in Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, pp. p. 230 Retrieved on 28 June 2009.
Author (not noted in book, however Douglas Grant The Cock Lane Ghost page 7 declares it to be "J. W. Archer") the Office of the National Illustrated Library no longer exists and it is very unlikely its records of its illustrators are preserved to this date.
Permission
(Reusing this file)
Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1930.
Public domain works must be out of copyright in both the United States and in the source country of the work in order to be hosted on the Commons. If the work is not a U.S. work, the file must have an additional copyright tag indicating the copyright status in the source country.
Note: This tag should not be used for sound recordings.PD-1923Public domain in the United States//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cock_lane_room.png
Public domain logo
This UK artistic or literary work, of which the author is unknown and cannot be ascertained by reasonable enquiry, is in the public domain because it is one of the following:
  • A photograph, which has never previously been made available to the public (e.g. by publication or display at an exhibition) and which was taken more than 70 years ago (before 1 January 1955); or
  • A photograph, which was made available to the public (e.g. by publication or display at an exhibition) more than 70 years ago (before 1 January 1955); or
  • An artistic work other than a photograph (e.g. a painting), or a literary work, which was made available to the public (e.g. by publication or display at an exhibition) more than 70 years ago (before 1 January 1955).

Warning sign This tag can be used only when the author cannot be ascertained by reasonable enquiry. If you wish to rely on it, please specify in the image description the research you have carried out to find who the author was. The above is all subject to any overriding publication right which may exist. In practice, publication right will often override the first of the bullet points listed.

Unpublished anonymous paintings remain in copyright until at least 1 January 2040. This tag does not apply to engravings or musical works. More information

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current17:06, 16 September 2011Thumbnail for version as of 17:06, 16 September 2011615 × 483 (243 KB)Quibik (talk | contribs)removed some coherent noise and increased contrast
18:26, 22 December 2009Thumbnail for version as of 18:26, 22 December 2009615 × 483 (272 KB)Parrot of Doom (talk | contribs)Larger higher resolution version, taken from ''Cock Lane Ghost'', Grant (1965)
22:24, 27 June 2009Thumbnail for version as of 22:24, 27 June 2009303 × 238 (39 KB)Parrot of Doom (talk | contribs){{Information |Description={{en|1=The haunted room at Cock Lane, as seen in MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE Madness of Crowds, 1852}} |Source=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24518/24518-h/dvii.html#image62 |Author=CHARLES MACKAY, LL.D. |

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file:

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Cock_lane_room.png&oldid=866681520"