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The Canterville Ghost

Original - Illustration by Wallace Goldsmith for Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost. In this parody, a family of Americans takes over a haunted English country house, and utterly fail to be frightened at the spectre's attempts to scare them - but do manage to prank and play practical jokes on the titular ghost. This illustrates theresults of a butter slide - a once-popular but rather dangerous practical joke - set up by the twin boys in one of their pranks.

Reason

A fine image, capturing the humour of the story. I believe this is a photogravure image, though it could be a similar process I'm not familiar with. The text in question appears in chapter 4:

Still, in spite of everything, he was not left unmolested. Strings were continually being stretched across the corridor, over which he tripped in the dark, and on one occasion, while dressed for the part of 'Black Isaac, or the Huntsman of Hogley Woods,' he met with a severe fall, through treading on a butter-slide, which the twins had constructed from the entrance of the Tapestry Chamber to the top of the oak staircase. This last insult so enraged him, that he resolved to make one final effort to assert his dignity and social position, and determined to visit the insolent young Etonians the next night in his celebrated character of 'Reckless Rupert, or the Headless Earl.'

Articles this image appears in

The Canterville Ghost

Creator

Wallace Goldsmith

• Support as nominator --Shoemaker's Holiday ^{Over 192 FCs served} 23:02, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
• Support Comical, eye catching and interesting. --Muhammad(talk) 01:55, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
• Support The face is just priceless. Staxringold _talk^contribs 05:16, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
• Support as others --Childzy ¤ Talk 23:18, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
• Support Noodle snacks (talk) 07:09, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
• Support - I'm agree with other users--Sabri76'^message 12:20, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Promoted File:Wallace Goldsmith - Oscar Wilde - Canterville Ghost - He met with a severe fall.jpg --Ottava Rima (talk) 14:18, 22 August 2009 (UTC)