Creator: Silvester, printmaker - Yale University Library Search Results

Creator:: Silvester, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1817]
Call Number:: File 66 817 S58+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An engraved ticket to the retirement dinner for John Philip Kemble. At the top, a portrait of Kemble's head, irradiated. The text is surrounded by garlands; at the base a banner with a quote from Hamlet "The observed, all observers" woven through a lyre, a mask above
Alternative Title:: Ticket to farewell dinner for John Philip Kemble
Description:: Title from engraved text., Signed: Secretaries., "Not transferable"-- Engraved above mask., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The farewell dinner was held 27 June 1817 at the Freemasons' Tavern. See the Dictionary of National Biography., and Mounted to sheet 32 x 26 cm with watermark "1821".
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823.
Subject (Topic):: Actors and British
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Farewell dinner to J.P. Kemble Esqr. on his retirement from the stage admit [blank] / [graphic]