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
Volume 1, page 1. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 277); half-length standing to front with eyes to left, within landscape; dressed in plain coat and spotted waistcoat with his right hand resting on the portfolio held under his left arm; the lower part of the image cast in shadow; state with title and description."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1833,0610.12., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 1 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., and With a clipping from volume 4 of Anecdotes of painting in England pasted below, beneath which Horace Walpole has added "pref. to 4th vol. of Anecd. of Painting" in ink.
"Portrait of Anna Zamperini; half-length, standing behind a balustrade with her hands clasped in front of her, wearing a bonnet and pearl choker."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement. Imprint supplied from Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Mounted on leaf numbered 49 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by Mr. Parker, No. 82 Cornhill, & Mr. Finlayson in Berwick Street, Soho
Title etched below image., Probably by Philip Dawe. See Chaloner Smith., Subject identified in an unverified card catalog record as the Countess of Coventry., Reduced version of no. 21 in British mezzotinto portraits, v. 1, p. 158., and Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: lady's maid -- China: wash-bowls -- Soap.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Name):
Coventry, Maria Gunning Coventry, Countess of, 1733-1760
Print shows actor David Garrick in the role of Kitely from the play "Every Man in his Humour" by Ben Jonson, half-length portrait, facing left, in costume
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1902,1011.2088., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 116 (leaf numbered '167' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Sold by Mr. Parker, No. 82 Cornhill, & Mr. Finlayson in Berwick Street, Soho
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779,, Garrick, David, 1717-1779, and Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.
A laughing well-dressed man looks through a large round glass, his left hand in his pocket. A bailiff, standing to his left, puts his hand on the man's left arm while presenting him with a writ. In the background is a large, four-story building in front of which stands a sedan chair. From a building across the street hangs a large sign with Shakespeare's likeness, signed 'Shakespear.'
Description:
Title from item., Four lines of verse in two columns below image: Sir Fopling Flutter through his glass inspects the ladies as they pass ..., Lewis Walpole Library 769.00.00.08.1+: Subject identified in a later ms. note below plate as Charles Fleetwood, Manager of Drury Lane Theatre., and Temporary local subject terms: Eye-glasses: quizzing glass - Slang: 'fopling' -- Bailiffs -- Signboards -- Allusion to William Shakespeare -- Documents: writs -- Vehicles: sedan chair -- Literature: reference to The man of mode, or, Sr. Fopling Flutter by Sir George Etherege. 1635?-1691.
Publisher:
Published according to act in 1769, by John Bowles, at No. 13 in Cornhill, London
