Mr. Mattocks and Mr. Quick in the characters of Don Ferdinand and Isaac Mendoza in The Duenna. [graphic]

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Title: Mr. Mattocks and Mr. Quick in the characters of Don Ferdinand and Isaac Mendoza in The Duenna. [graphic]
Contributor: Zoffany, Johann, 1733-1810, artist.
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.
Published / Created: published as the act directs [1777]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Abstract: "Double portrait, Mattocks to right standing with hands clasped in pleading, looking to right at Mendoza, who stands drawing his sword, looking implacably at the other, both wearing richly decorated suits and coats and small ruffs."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
The head of John Quick seems to have been engraved after a painting by Johann Zoffany; see Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.7269.
Publisher Carington Bowles was located at the listed street address between 1766 and 1793. A publication date of 1777 is deduced from the plate numbering; see table on page 786 in v. 5 of the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint and plate numbering from lower edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Plate numbered "369" in lower left corner.
Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 122 (leaf numbered '171' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Provenance: Formerly owned by R.B. Sheridan (the dramatist's grandson), who undertook the copious extra-illustration of the volumes. Later owned by Sheridan's descendant Lady Wavertree. Sotheby's, 25 May 1954 (Lady Wavertree sale), lot 266, to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 34.4 x 26 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English