Madame Vestris as Don Giovani [art original]
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Description
- Title
- Madame Vestris as Don Giovani [art original]
- Alternative Title
- Madame Vestris as Don Giovanni
- Contributor
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Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Neele, Henry, 1798-1828. - Published / Created
- [ca. 1828?]
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
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One of a collection of four similar images; the other three images are titled: Mr. Kean as Othello; Miss Hargraves as Amy; Miss Bartolozzi as the page in The marriage of Figaro. Formerly part of an album (now lost), each on the same size sheet but different colors and attributed to different artists. Annotations in red ink are by the same hand. Presumably these collages, made using the same farbics, were made by friends and exchanged as gifts. In this collage a full-length image of a woman, identified as Miss Vestris: her head and neck, arms, and boots have been cut from an unidentifed print or prints while her costume and hat and their trimming are cut from satin cloth with additional decorated paper trimming. On the verso written in red ink, two poems: "The Snow Drop by Henry Neele" and "I Saw Thee Weep, Byron" transcribed in two columns
- Description
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Title written at bottom of sheet.
Signed with initials in lower right corner; artist "H.A.S" is unidentified.
Date of production from recipient's note on the verso of one of the collages and other internal evidence.
The poem on verso "The Snow Drop" in the Oriental Herald and Journal of General Literature, volume 16, page 502 and signed "W. B." Also published in May 1828 in the The Ariel: A literary and cricial gazette (Philadelphia), vol. 2. no.1. - Provenance
- Purchased from Michael S. Kemp, April 2021.
- Extent
- 1 item : sheet 22.8 x 16.5 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Drawings C697 no. 3 Box D115
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Engravings
Collages
Collages (visual works) - Material
- engraved print with fabric ; and green wove paper collage.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi, 1797-1856,
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838. - Subject (Topic)
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Characters
Actresses
British
Operas & operettas - Subjects
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Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi, 1797-1856
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 > Characters
Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838
Actresses > British
Operas & operettas
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Citation
- Madame Vestris as Don Giovani. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 15798232
- Object ID (OID)
- 33103549