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.
"Portrait; bust length, to right; in decorated oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Plate from: The London magazine; or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : R. Baldwin, v. 45 (August 1776)., and "London mage."--Above image in upper right.
"Actress half-length looking upwards in an oval, wearing helmet, medusa collar and carrying a shield."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Mounted on leaf numbered 7 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:
Publishd as the act directs Febry. 24, 1774 by H. Bryer at No. 12 Stephen Street Tottenham Court Road
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.
"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
A composition set in an oval shows a scene from O'Keeffe's Agreeable surprise in which Cowslip (Mrs. Wells) stands in profile on the left holding out a bowl of milk. Lingo (Mr. Edwin) faces the viewer as his eyes turn toward Cowslip; he gestures with his right hand chest-high. Both are three-quarter views of the performers
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date based on drawing of Mrs. Wells by Donnman in the Brit. Museum., A related print of Edwin and Wells as Lingo and Cowslip / H. Singleton pinxt. ; Edmund Scott sculpt. Published 1 May 1788 by I. Birchall. See Catalogue of Engraved British portraits, v. 2, p. 136., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Edwin, John, 1749-1790, Wells, Mary, approximately 1759-, and O'Keeffe, John, 1747-1833.
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,
Portrait of Mrs. Abington after Reynolds (Mannings 28); standing three-quarter length to front, resting her left arm on a draped block (the pedestal of a statue of the Comic Muse), head inclined to left, eyes to front; wearing floral gown, sash and her hair up; plain background
Description:
Title from caption below image., First state, without numbering '133'. See J.C. Smith., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Mrs. Abington, comic actress, born and worked London and Dublin. Began as a flower seller and domestic servant., Mounted on leaf numbered 1 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.
