Strive not Tragedy nor Comedy to engross a Garrick, who to your noblest characters does equal honour [graphic]

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Title: Strive not Tragedy nor Comedy to engross a Garrick, who to your noblest characters does equal honour [graphic]
Creator: Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Contributor: Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1762 and 1766]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Abstract: "Portrait of David Garrick after Reynolds (Mannings 700); standing three-quarter length between Comedy and Tragedy, smiling towards the latter, but allowing the former to tug him towards her; landscape behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
Charles Corbutt was a pseudonym used by Richard Purcell.
Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.1321.
Text below title: Reddere Personae scit convenientia cuique.
For a larger version by Purcell, published by Sayer and Carington Bowles, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Ee,5.144. See also: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 3, no. 31, page 1016.
Provenance: Simon Beattie; April 2023.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25.1 x 36 cm, on sheet 31 x 47 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English