"David Garrick, on the left, is lifted from his tomb by two angels, and flown towards the summit of the mount in background, to meet Apollo and the muses; the tomb is supported by the figures of Lyric Poetry and the Belles Lettres, a relief on the front shows Nature weeping over a medallion of Garrick; to the right of the tomb are a group of seventeen theatrical persons, drressed in their favourite Shakespearian characters; descending the mount towards Garrick are Thalia, Melpomene and Shakespeare."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Accompanied by a key in French on a separate sheet (21 x 34 cm.). Seventeen bust portraits of actors and actresses shown in the print are at top of the key sheet and are identified by name below title, Ils sont tous dans leurs roles favoris du Shakespeare. The list of names is followed by Explication du dessein., Accompanying key housed in separate folder., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs January 20 1783 by G. Carter Margt. Street Cavendish Square
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The London magazine; or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : Printed for R. Baldwin, v. 88 (1749), p. 282., Not in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits ... in the British Museum., and Window mounted to 15 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Baldwin junr. at [the] Rose in Pater Noster Row
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779, and Garrick, Eva Marie, 1724-1822,
Looking from the outside into the interior of Capulet's tomb, the viewer sees Juliet's despair as she hears the news of Romeo's death from Friar Lawrence. Outside on the right, Romeo lies dead on the ground
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parlit. by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Bellamy, George Anne, 1731?-1788, Garrick, David, 1717-1779,, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Saunders, Joseph, active 1772-1800, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[24 June 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Half length, seated at a table in profile facing left, looking at a miniature of Shakespeare, a long stick over his shoulder; published state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1902,1011.4098., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 18 (leaf numbered '74' 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 June 24, 1773, & sold by J. Saunders, at Mr. Deschamps Upholder in Compton Street, Soho
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616,
Subject (Topic):
Miniatures (Paintings), Dramatists, Actors, and British
David Garrick is shown at Drury Lane Theatre standing with a scroll in his left hand, gesturing with the other, looking to left. He stand in front of Scheemaker's statue of Shakespeare, in front of the orchestra (musicians shown with their musical instruments) and the singers on stage, lighting from the candles in the chandelier above. Members of the audience watch from boxes on either side of the stage. On the scroll is a quote from the Tempest Act IV, Scene 1, line 134: Prospero's line "cloud-capp'd towers".
Description:
Title etched above image., Plate originally published in: The London museum of politics, miscellanies, and literature. London : printed for J. Miller ... , 1770- , v. 1 (February, 1770), page 72., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top, bottom and right side., Two lines of verse in two columns below image: To him the song, the edifice we raise, he merits all our wonder, all our praise. The Ode, p. 2., 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):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
David Garrick in the role of Richard III, awakening from his troubled dream in the tent before the battle of Bosworth Field. Copy after the painting by Hogarth
Description:
Title engraved above image. and "Pl. XLVII"--Upper right corner.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by Robert Scholey, 46 Paternoster Row
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
The interior of a neat farmer's cottage, with the farmer seated in an armchair next to a table looking at his wife (right) to stands talking to him, a jug in her left hand as she gestures with her right. To the left of the farmer their two young children, a son (holding a candlestick) and daughter (animated like her mother) stand before the hearth which is equipped with andirons and pots. Behind them along the wall hang baskets, onions and kitchen utensils (colander). The farmer's wife has been identified as Mrs. Mary Bradshaw. In the adjoining room a picture of two horses racing
Description:
Title from Smith., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title?, Engraved by Haid from a painting by Zoffany., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: farmer's cottage -- Furniture: kitchen table -- Ladder-back chair -- Armchair -- Kitchen utensils -- Literature: The farmer's return by David Garrick -- Actresses: Mrs. Mary Bradshaw, d. 1780, as the farmer's wife., and Mounted.
Publisher:
John Boydell
Subject (Name):
Bradshaw, Mary, -1780, and Garrick, David, 1717-1779,
Subject (Topic):
Dwellings, Fireplaces, Pipes (Smoking), and Pitchers
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.
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top edge., Plate from: The town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Junr., v. 1 (1769), page 473., Numbered 'No. XXVII' in upper left corner., See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 431., and Temporary local subject terms: Theatres: Stratford upon Avon -- Female dress, 1769 -- Male dress, 1769 -- William Shakespeare's statue, 1769.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Monuments & memorials, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Performances, and Theaters
