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1.
(Mr. Liston in his principal characters) [graphic]

Creator:
Marks, John Lewis, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1825?]
Call Number:
825.00.00.43+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text above images., Nine images on one plate, eight in two rows; the center image of Liston as Paul Pry is two columns high., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Liston, John, 1776-1846
Subject (Topic):
Performances, Actors, British, Actors, British, and Theatrical productions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > (Mr. Liston in his principal characters) [graphic]

2.
A lecture on heads [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
Apr. 1808.
Call Number:
Print00198
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Lee Lewes stands on stage at Covent Garden, with busts arranged on a table behind him, he holds one up, turning to the crowd; the audience in the pit in the foreground, with four tiers of boxes behind; after Woodward."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Frontispiece to: A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens ; with additions, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes ; ... embellished with twenty-five humourous characteristic prints, from drawings by G.M. Woodward, Esq. London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ..., 1808.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784., Lewes, Charles Lee, 1740-1803, and Covent Garden Theatre,
Subject (Topic):
Theaters, Actors, British, Interiors, Audiences, and Public speaking
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > A lecture on heads [graphic]

3.
A specimen of Mr. K**n's acting, or, A little man of great parts! [graphic].

Creator:
Marks, John Lewis, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1820]
Call Number:
820.00.00.114+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The actor Kean in part as Richard III appalled as his bastard son is presented to him by its mother as a beadle holds a court order for its maintenance at 7/6d a week."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Specimen of Mr. Kean's acting, or, A little man of great parts! and Little man of great parts!
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.11.111., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Matted to 30 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J.L. Marks, 37 Princes St., Soho, and 28 Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833
Subject (Topic):
Actors and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A specimen of Mr. K**n's acting, or, A little man of great parts! [graphic].

4.
Anthony Leigh, or, The Spanish fryar [graphic]

Creator:
Smith, John, 1749-1831, printmaker
Published / Created:
[after 1689]
Call Number:
689.00.00.20
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Spanish fryar and Spanish friar
Description:
Title from item. and For further information, consult Library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Leigh, Anthony, -1692, and Dryden, John, 1631-1700
Subject (Topic):
Characters, Spanish fryar, Actors, and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Anthony Leigh, or, The Spanish fryar [graphic]

5.
Bannister as Whiskerandos in The critic [art original]

Creator:
De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832, artist
Published / Created:
[1806]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Collection Title:
Volume 2, opposite page 198. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
John Bannister (as Whiskerandos in 'The critic')
Description:
Title written in pencil in lower right corner. Alternative title from note in ink on mounting sheet: John Bannister (as Whiskerandos in 'The Critic')., Signed and dated by the artist in pencil., Possibly the original design for an engraving by R. Smith that was published by John Cawthorn in 1806; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1933,1014.421. See also: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 116. For a brief mention of De Wilde's portrait of Bannister as Whiskerandos, and the engraving after it by Smith, see: A biographical dictionary of actors, actresses, musicians, dancers, managers & other stage personnel in London, 1600-1800, v.1, pages 272-3., and Mounted opposite page 198 (leaf numbered '9' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Bannister, John, 1760-1836,
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, and Theatrical productions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Bannister as Whiskerandos in The critic [art original]

6.
Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1 July 1790]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either side of him, his wife and lover are kneeling before their respective fathers, pleading for intervention on Macheath's behalf; in the background, a group of male figures (Macheath's gang?). Each figure is numbered and listed below under the appropriate category -- performers or audience
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Key plate to the painting by Hogarth and the engraving after it by William Blake., Mounted on page 162 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 14.6 x 22 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Annotated by Horace Walpole in pencil in lower right corner: Some of the figures in the boxes are different from those in Mr. Walpole's picture.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Actresses, Audiences, and Theatrical productions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]

7.
Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1 July 1790]
Call Number:
Hogarth 790.07.01.09 Box 115
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either side of him, his wife and lover are kneeling before their respective fathers, pleading for intervention on Macheath's behalf; in the background, a group of male figures (Macheath's gang?). Each figure is numbered and listed below under the appropriate category -- performers or audience
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., and Key plate to the painting by Hogarth and the engraving after it by William Blake.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Actresses, Audiences, and Theatrical productions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]

8.
Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1 July 1790]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either side of him, his wife and lover are kneeling before their respective fathers, pleading for intervention on Macheath's behalf; in the background, a group of male figures (Macheath's gang?). Each figure is numbered and listed below under the appropriate category -- performers or audience
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Key plate to the painting by Hogarth and the engraving after it by William Blake., and On page 235 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: plate mark 14.5 x 21.9 cm, on sheet 15.4 x 22.7 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Actresses, Audiences, and Theatrical productions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]

9.
Comic dance in the popular pantomime of The white cat by Messr. Kirby & Chatterley to the tune of

Creator:
Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Published / Created:
[5 January 1812]
Call Number:
812.01.05.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The clowns Kirby and Chatterley, one dressed in female costume, dancing."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., The one character is identified as William Simmons Chatterley., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on laid paper backing.
Publisher:
Pub. 5th of Jany. 1812 by T. Palser, Bridge Road, Lambeth
Subject (Name):
Chatterley, William Simmons, 1787-1822. and Grimaldi, Joseph, 1779-1837.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Clowns, Dance, and Theatrical productions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Comic dance in the popular pantomime of The white cat by Messr. Kirby & Chatterley to the tune of The bold dragoon / [graphic]

10.
David Garrick, Esqr [graphic]

Creator:
Green, Valentine, 1739-1813, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 April 1769]
Call Number:
769.04.02.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of David Garrick standing whole-length to front with legs crossed and leaning on a bust of Shakespeare that stands on a plinth in a garden; he holds a stick in his left hand as he looks to the right; the Palladian bridge at Prior Park can be seen in the distance at the right
Description:
Title, artist, and printmaker scratched with production and publication detail below image.
Publisher:
Published April 2nd 1769, by J. Boydell Cheapside No. 90
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779,
Subject (Topic):
Actors and British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > David Garrick, Esqr [graphic]

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