A Phantasmagoria; — Scene – Conjuring-Up an Armed-Skeleton
January 5, 1803
Medium
Hand-colored etching
Dimensions
sheet: 13 7/8 x 10 in. (35.3 x 25.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Philip van Ingen, 1942
Accession Number
42.121(78)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the mischievous world James Gillray, the preeminent British caricaturist of the late18th and early th centuries, with his-colored etching *A Phasmagoria; — Scene – Conj-Up an Armed-Skeleton from January 5, 1803. This lively print, measuring 13 7/8 x 10 inches, captures a dramatic supernatural spectacle inspired by phantasmagoria—popular lantern shows that projected ghostly images to thrill audiences. Gillray's etching, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints (gift of Philip van Ingen,1942), blends horror and humor through exaggerated figures of men and women summo...