Positively the last night of performing here this season. By particular desire. The manager's night
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., From a bound collection of playbills: [A collection of playbills for theatres in Kent, 1771-1784?]. [England], [between 1771 and 1784?]., and Numbered in ms.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Whitehead, William, 1715-1785. and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Caption title., A playbill., Date from manuscript notation., From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]. Mounted on page 129., and Annotated in ms.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Vanbrugh, John, 1664-1726. and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Caption title., A playbill., From a bound collection of playbills: [A collection of playbills for theatres in Kent, 1771-1784?]. [England], [between 1771 and 1784?]., and Numbered in ms.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Farquhar, George, 1677?-1707., Garrick, David, 1717-1779., and Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811.
Caption title., A playbill., and From a bound collection of playbills: [A collection of playbills for theatres in Kent, 1771-1784?]. [England], [between 1771 and 1784?].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Young, Edward, 1683-1765. and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
A collection of theatrical costume drawings from a variety of sources in a variety of mediums on paper and pasteboard, mostly unidentified but some signed: two by Lucien Besche, one by Herbert Norris, one by C.A. Stothard, two by Charles Wilhelm and two idenitified only by the initials T.O., with dates ranging from the last quarter of the 18th century through 1925. Also includes one print of Charles Kean. The 18th century drawings show women's costumes for a variety of unidentified productions in a variety of period dress, including a group of five drawings of classical Roman figures and deities, a drawing for a costume for Lady Macbeth, and Stothard's drawing for Henry V. Later costume drawings include three pen drawings of mid-19th characters, one of whom is in a train carriage, a "Wood Gatherer" costume from London Lyceum Theatre's 1893-1894 production of 'Cinderella' , Bosche's 1892 drawing of a female warrior for "The 40 thieves". Some drawings include notes about the fabric and colors to be used, address of vendors, etc
Description:
For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779. and Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833
Subject (Topic):
Costume design, Actors, English, and Costume design drawings
First line of text after theatre name or other text not chosen as title
Description:
Caption title., Publication place from attached note., A playbill., Date from manuscript notation., From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]. Mounted on page 147., "The place is Chester. Memoirs, III, 233." -- On mounted typed note, page 147., and Dated in ms.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777. and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Portrait of David Garrick, seated at a desk, with his wife standing behind him, reaching to grasp the pen that he is holding in his right hand and "Portrait of David Garrick, three-quarter length, seated at a writing table, to the left, looking at viewer, his head supported by right hand, which also holds a quill, his right elbow resting on table; pointing down to the right with left hand; behind him his wife stands, reaching over the back of the chair towards the desk with her right hand, looking down towards Garrick."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The art-journal. [London] : [George Virtue], February 1855, opposite page 42., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression at the Massachusetts Historical Society, call no.: Special Colls. Waterston autograph vol. 2., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 613 (leaf numbered '47' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published for the proprietors
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779,, Garrick, Eva Maria, 1724-1822,, Garrick, David, 1717-1779., and Garrick, Eva Maria, 1724-1822.
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Abel Drugger is a character in the play The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Published by Messrs. Colnaghi & Co. Pall Mall, East, March Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Actors, Theater, Pharmacists, Skulls, Books, and Specimens
"Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive in the character from Colman and Garrick's 'The Clandestine Marriage'; full-length, standing three-quarters to left with head in profile, right hand gathering apron, left by her side with forefinger pointing downward, wearing richly trimmed panniered dress and wide-brimmed hat with trailing ribbon, hair worn high."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,58.184., Plate from: Dramatic characters, or Different portraits of the English stage. London : R. Sayer and J. Smith, 1770., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "14" in lower right corner., Mounted on page 235 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., Mounted beside a clipping (9.1 x 6.5 cm) from a newspaper or magazine describing the marble monument at Twickenham Church on which verses eulogizing Mrs. Clive were written., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785,, Garrick, David, 1717-1779., Colman, George, 1732-1794., and Northumberland, Elizabeth Seymour Percy, Duchess of, 1716-1776
