Margaret's ghost.", James Gillray, 1791

The interior of a bedroom, with miss gunning in bed (left), facing the spectator; a stout woman, her mother, holds her arm; both look round in alarm at a much-caricatured creature, miss minifie, who rushes towards them (right) from an open door, arms outstretched, gaping with staring eyeballs. Mrs. Gunning raises a leg in her surprise, breaking a bottle of 'brandy' which with a glass had been concealed under her petticoats. Beneath the design is etched: 'what's the matter auntee-peg, what makes you put on such a long face?"' in the upper and lower margins is the inscription: 'i was sitting by the bedside of my smiling-injured-innocent-lambkin, & holding one of the sweet tender hands of my amiable-gentle-dovelike-cherub, when her aunt came into the room, with a face paler than ashes, - "what is the matter, auntee peg" - says my dear-chaste-adorable-kind-benificent-enchanting-heart-feeling-benificent-paragon of goodness \ she broke upon us the dishonorable-infamous-false-accusations, & the cruel most cruel messages that accompanied them, at that moment a vow issued from my torn, my rent, my wounded, my agonizing, my suffering heart, & my dear-divine-glorious-arch angelic-angel, said &c &c. ' 25 march 1791 hand-coloured etching. Date: 1791. Dimensions: Height: 232 mm; Width: 271 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Susannah Gunning, Margaret Minifie, Elizabeth Gunning. Collection: British Museum. Margaret's ghost." (BM 1868,0808.6024)