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English: The haunted room at Cock Lane, as seen in MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE Madness of Crowds, 1852

Date

1852

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.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	17:06, 16 September 2011	615 × 483 (243 KB)	Quibik	removed some coherent noise and increased contrast
	18:26, 22 December 2009	615 × 483 (272 KB)	Parrot of Doom	Larger higher resolution version, taken from ''Cock Lane Ghost'', Grant (1965)
	22:24, 27 June 2009	303 × 238 (39 KB)	Parrot of Doom	{{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. \|