A theatrical candidate [graphic].

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Title: A theatrical candidate [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [1797]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: S.W. Fores?
Abstract: "An actor, ugly and ragged, stands gesticulating, the left arm extended towards Sheridan, who sits in a low chair (right) before a small rectangular table. He fixes Sheridan with a hungry glare, clutching a small cocked hat in his right hand ... In the upper right corner of the design is a quotation from 'Hamlet', III. ii, beginning 'Oh, there be Players', and ending, 'they imitated humanity so abominably'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker and date from Grego.
Possibly published by Fores, whose publisher's stamp is on the Lewis Walpole Library impression.
Twelve lines of text below title: A candidate for the stage lately applied to the manager of Drury-Lane Theatre for an engagement ...
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 35.5 x 24.6 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides; window mounted to 51 x 36 cm.
Mounted opposite page 594 (leaf numbered '28' in pencil) in volume 4 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 : plate mark 35.3 x 25 cm, on sheet 36 x 26 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English