File:How very Blue the Candle burns!! (BM 1985,0119.141).jpg

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How very Blue the Candle burns!!   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Attributed to: Charles Williams

Formerly attributed to: F Sansom
After: George Moutard Woodward
Published by: S W Fores
Title
How very Blue the Candle burns!!
Description
English: A family, grouped round a small round table, see with consternation that the candle has a large blue flame. They are an elderly woman who is sewing, an elderly man in a smock frock, a youth, a small child, and a dog, whose raised head appears in the foreground. Behind the woman (l.) stands a ghost in white drapery, with a beard and corpse-like face, glaring down at the group. 30 July 1798
Hand-coloured etching
Date 1796
date QS:P571,+1796-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 250 millimetres
Width: 352 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1985,0119.141
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947) A lithograph with this title, not in B.M., is Reid, No. 2758 (c. 1818), the design attributed to Capt. Hehl.

Andrew Norton (correspondence, March 2008) dismissed the attribution to Sansom by Dorothy George, and suggested that the print may be among the earliest work for Fores by Williams.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1985-0119-141
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