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2.
- Creator:
- Sympson, Joseph, -1736, attributed name
- Published / Created:
- [179-?]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 53 Sp3 820a v.3
- Collection Title:
- Volume 3, before page 159. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A stage scene with five performers in Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera'; a prison scene with three men standing and two women on their knees; a forgery purporting to be a benefit ticket for Thomas Walker for his performance as Macheath."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text within ribbon at top of image; remainder of title from text below image., One of the suppositious 'Sympson' prints whose attributions have long been doubted; see Paulson 1965/60 Appendix I, pages 313-4 for more information., Dated to the 1790s in the British Museum online catalog, registration no.: Cc,3.122., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Polly portrayed by Lavinia Fenton., Mounted to 38 x 27 cm., and Bound in before page 159 (leaf numbered '22' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Spence, J. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732., Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744,, and Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760,
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, Actresses, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > For the benefit of Mr. Walker Theatre Royal Covent Garden / [graphic]
3.
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [14 December 1799]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 28. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Mrs. Siddons as Elvira in 'Pizarro'. Her words are from Act III. iii (in Pizarro's tent). She stands with her head turned in profile to the left, right arm extended in a commanding gesture. She wears a high-waisted, quasi-classical dress, with a long cloak bordered with gold, folds of which are twisted round her left arm."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Theater: actors in performance -- Literature: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Pizarro, iii.3 -- Female costume: theater costume., Leaf 28 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 22.3 x 17.4 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Figure identified as "Siddons" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Name):
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
- Subject (Topic):
- Actresses, British, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hold! Pizarro, hear me! If not always justly, at least act always greatly. Pizarro [graphic]
4.
- Creator:
- Read, Richard, approximately 1745-approximately 1800, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [11 April 1778]
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of the actress Anne Brown (later Cargill) as the character Louisa from Sheridan's comic opera 'The Duenna'; half-length, directed and looking three-quarters to right, smiling and lifting from her face with her left hand a voluminous veil, which covers her head and is draped about her shoulders and bosom; her right hand raised in front of her, with forefinger up; wearing low-necked dress with slashed sleeves, the cuffs trimmed with pointed lace, hair worn high; oval frame."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Laid in after page 192 in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 11, 1778, by J. Walker, No. 13, Parliament Street
- Subject (Name):
- Cargill, Ann, 1760?-1784, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
- Subject (Topic):
- Actresses and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Louisa vide Sheridans Duenna : engrav'd from an original picture painted by Mr. John Russell / [graphic]
5.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1828?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings C697 no. 3 Box D115
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- One of a collection of four similar images; the other three images are titled: Mr. Kean as Othello; Miss Hargraves as Amy; Miss Bartolozzi as the page in The marriage of Figaro. Formerly part of an album (now lost), each on the same size sheet but different colors and attributed to different artists. Annotations in red ink are by the same hand. Presumably these collages, made using the same farbics, were made by friends and exchanged as gifts. In this collage a full-length image of a woman, identified as Miss Vestris: her head and neck, arms, and boots have been cut from an unidentifed print or prints while her costume and hat and their trimming are cut from satin cloth with additional decorated paper trimming. On the verso written in red ink, two poems: "The Snow Drop by Henry Neele" and "I Saw Thee Weep, Byron" transcribed in two columns
- Alternative Title:
- Madame Vestris as Don Giovanni
- Description:
- Title written at bottom of sheet., Signed with initials in lower right corner; artist "H.A.S" is unidentified., Date of production from recipient's note on the verso of one of the collages and other internal evidence., and The poem on verso "The Snow Drop" in the Oriental Herald and Journal of General Literature, volume 16, page 502 and signed "W. B." Also published in May 1828 in the The Ariel: A literary and cricial gazette (Philadelphia), vol. 2. no.1.
- Subject (Name):
- Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi, 1797-1856,, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791., and Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838.
- Subject (Topic):
- Characters, Actresses, British, and Operas & operettas
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Madame Vestris as Don Giovani [art original]
6.
- Creator:
- Caldwall, James, 1739-1819, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 15 April 1772.
- Call Number:
- 771.12.01.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Anna Friedrike Heinel, in character; whole length, dancing, in costume; wearing layered skirt, bodice with garland, beads and feather in hair, and choker; after Brandoin."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Mlle Heinel in the character of a sultana and Mademoiselle Heinel in the character of a sultana
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Printed on same sheet: The Pretty Savoyard girl., and Watermark: J Taylor.
- Publisher:
- Printed for R. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside, as the act directs
- Subject (Name):
- Heinel, Anna, 1753-1808,
- Subject (Topic):
- Costumes, Actresses, and Dancers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Madle. Heinel in the character of a Sultana [graphic]
7.
- Creator:
- Butcher, Master, artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1828]
- Call Number:
- Drawings C697 no. 4 Box D115
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- One of a collection of four similar images; the other three images are titled: Mr. Kean as Othello; Miss Hargraves as Amy; Madame Vestris as Don Giovani. Formerly part of an album (now lost), each on the same size sheet but different colors and collages attributed to different artists. Annotations in red ink are by the same hand. Presumably these collages, constructed using the same fabrics, were made by friends and exchanged as gifts. In this collage a full-length image of a woman, identified as Miss Bartolozzi, with her head and neck, hands, and boots cut from an unidentifed print or prints while her costume and hat and their trimming are cut from satin cloth with additional decorated paper trimming. On the verso in two columns written in red ink and ruled in red ink: On the left the title of a poem only "Lines on my garden". On the right: Song, "My own Blue Bell".
- Description:
- Title written below image., Artist statement written at top of sheet; "Master Butcher" is unidentified., and Date of production from recipient's note on the verso of one of the collages and other internal evidence.
- Subject (Name):
- Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi, 1797-1856, and Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838.
- Subject (Topic):
- Actresses, British, and Operas & operettas
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Miss Bartolozzi as the page in The marriage of Figaro [art original]
8.
- Creator:
- Hume, Sarah, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1830]
- Call Number:
- Drawings C697 no. 2 Box D115
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- One of a collection of four similar images; the others in this series are: Mr. Kean as Othello; Madame Vestris as Don Giovani; Miss Bartolozzi as the page in The marriage of Figaro. Formerly part of an album (now lost), each on the same size sheet but different colors and attributed to different artists. Annotations in red ink are by the same hand. Presumably these collages, constructed from the same fabrics, were made by friends and exchanged as gifts. This collage shows full-length image of a woman, identified as Miss Hargraves. Her head and neck, arms, and feet have been cut from an unidentifed print or prints while her costume and its trimming are cut from satin cloth. On each side are small images also cut from prints: on the right a house with a second story wrap-around porch and on the right a covered structure ladened with refreshments and On the back of this collage are mounted three small engravings of women in fashionable dress; with notes in red ink "Presented by Sarah, Apl. 8 1830" written twice in the upper left and right and below also on the right and left "The author returns thanks". In the same hand the middle print has been annotated "Kemble" which is also engraved in the plate with the author and printmaker statements "R. Cruikshank delt. J. Rogers sc."
- Description:
- Title written below image; artist statement above image. and Date of production from recipient's note on the verso and other internal evidence.
- Subject (Name):
- Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893,
- Subject (Topic):
- Actresses and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Miss Hargraves as Amy [art original]
9.
- Published / Created:
- [22 January 1780]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 99. Bunbury album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of the actress Charlotte Walpole dressed as a sentry in her role as Nancy in R.B. Sheridan's 'The Camp', an infantry soldier standing pointing and directed to left, holding rifle against left elbow, wearing cocked hat on powdered hair with a cockade, a thatched cottage in background to right with a sign lettered 'CW', the tents of a military camp in a field down the hill to left; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Early state, before title changed to "Nancy" and before verses added below image. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1906,0419.130., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 99 of: Bunbury album.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Jany. 22d, 1780, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Atkyns, Charlotte Walpole, Lady, approximately 1758-1836,
- Subject (Topic):
- Actresses, Soldiers, Guards, Military camps, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Miss Walpole [graphic]
10.
- Creator:
- Laurie, Robert, 1755-1836, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [12 May 1778]
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, opposite page 180. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Whole lengths, standing in a library, King on left, his hands clasped, before him a fallen screen, behind which, her back to a window, stands Mrs. Abington, elegantly dressed, holding fan before her face, Palmer points towards her with right hand whilst addressing Smith, who is just entering at door to right"--Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., "Price 1s. 6d."--Following imprint., Window mounted to 36 x 51 cm., and Mounted opposite page 180 (leaf numbered '218' 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:
- Publish'd as the act directs, 12th May 1778, by John Harris, map & printseller, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
- Subject (Name):
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., King, Thomas, 1730-1805,, Abington, Mrs. 1737-1815, (Frances Barton),, Palmer, John, 1742?-1798,, and Smith, William, 1730-1819,
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, British, Actresses, Theatrical productions, Sets (Architectural elements), Interiors, Libraries (Rooms & spaces), Bookcases, Screens, and Fans (Accessories)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. King, Mrs. Abington, Mr. Smith and Mr. Palmer in the characters of Sir Peter and Lady Teazle, Joseph and Charles Surface, in the comedy of the School for scandal / [graphic]
