"Portrait standing three-quarter length between Comedy and Tragedy, smiling towards the latter on the right, but allowing the former to tug him towards her; after Reynolds (Mannings 700); with separate plate."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved on separate plate printed beneath plate with image.
Publisher:
Sold by Edwd. Fisher, at the Golden Head the south side of Leicester Square, John Boydell engraver, at the Unicorn, in Cheapside, and E. Bakewell, & H. Parker, printsellers in Cornhill, opposite Birchin Lane, London
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 656); three-quarter length standing, turned slightly to left, leaning on stick, with left arm resting on right hand, wearing patterned waistcoat; curtain behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd June [the] 4th, 1771, accorg. to act of Parliament by W.W. Ryland in Cornhill
Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1762 and 1766]
Call Number:
Portraits G41 no. 5+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of David Garrick after Reynolds (Mannings 700); standing three-quarter length between Comedy and Tragedy, smiling towards the latter, but allowing the former to tug him towards her; landscape behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
A social satire with an image of the two dancers, full-length with a Bologna in a dress and hat on the left and a Grimaldi in clown make-up on the right. Both are in costume holding hands as they raise their opposite arms and legs
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published March 15, 1807 at R. Ackermanns, No. 101 Strand, London
Subject (Name):
Bologna, John Peter, 1775-1846. and Grimaldi, Joseph, 1779-1837.
"Kean, in the costume of Sir Giles Overreach, stands on the stage, indicated by a boarded floor surrounded by flame and smoke from the jaws of a semicircle of ferocious monsters, serpentine, scaly, and fanged, and with glaring eyeballs. The largest an...
Alternative Title:
Shakspeare in danger and Shakespeare in danger
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 1825 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Name):
Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833,, Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833, and Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833.
Subject (Topic):
Performances, Actors, British, Stages (Platforms), and Monsters
Kean as Richard III, directed to the left, stands on a large volume with the word 'Shakespear' written on the top edge. Resting on his head and humped shoulders is a model of Drury Lane Theatre, a massive block, inscribed 'Whitbreads Intire.' On the r...
Description:
Title from text etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 7th, 1814 by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833, Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833,, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616,, and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)
"J.P. Kemble stoops, with hands on knees, while a small and sprightly child, young Roscius, supports himself on his shoulders and is about to leap over his head. He says: "Alas! is it come to this Ah! woe is me Seeing what I have seen Seeing what I se...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published 30 November, 1804, by R. Akermann, No. 103 Strand
Subject (Name):
Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823 and Betty, William Hen. West 1791-1874 (William Henry West),
A monument to David Garrick with a putto holding a copy of the portrait of Garrick by Sir Joshua Reynolds just below the urn at the top. Below them, the muses of Comedy and Tragedy mourn along with three other putti and various theatrical emblems. At ...
Description:
Title from a separately engraved plate below the image. The title is followed by a verse from Sheridan, in two columns, three lines each, and a dedication: "This plate is done from the grand scene in the Monody, in honour of Garrick at the Theatre Roy...
Publisher:
Pub. May 23, 1781, for the proprieor T. Letton, by Mr. Picot, facing Hungerford Coffee House, Strand & Mr. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779
Subject (Topic):
Monuments, Actors, Monuments & memorials, and British
"Kemble (scarcely caricatured), as Rolla (the noble Peruvian), stands with his left hand pointing upwards, his right arm thrown back, his head in profile to the right. He wears quasi-classical dress, with barbarian adornments, feathered head-dress, he...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823
An oversized John Bull with a carbuncled-faced sits at a round table across from a very young looking William Betty and his father, both handsome and not caricatured. John Bull toasts the two, full wine glass in hand: "Youngster, heres to you I'm glad...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd January 4, 1805, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Betty, William Hen. West 1791-1874. (William Henry West),, Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831, and Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Theater, Actors, British, and Child actors
