"The actor Kean in part as Richard III appalled as his bastard son is presented to him by its mother as a beadle holds a court order for its maintenance at 7/6d a week."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Specimen of Mr. Kean's acting, or, A little man of great parts! and Little man of great parts!
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J.L. Marks, 37 Princes St., Soho, and 28 Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
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 t...
Description:
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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
Subject: Full length portrait of the actor Edmund Kean standing; facing the viewer; background, a wooded area near a stream. A canoe in the background. Kean wears Native American-style or Wyandot-style clothing with a feathered headress; he holds an a...
Publisher:
Neal & Mackenzie 201 Chesnut Street Philadelphia
Subject (Name):
Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833 and Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833.
"Mrs. Cox, in décolletée evening dress with roses in her hair, sits on a sofa with Kean on her lap. He wears slashed doublet and trunk hose. She caresses him, saying, O Romeo, I would thy love were pure as is the virgin snow --. He gazes at her with...
Alternative Title:
Keenish sport in Cox's court! and Symptoms of crim. con in Drury Lane May 1824
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May, 1824 by J. Fairburn Broadway Ludgate Hill
"METROPOLITAN POLITICAL UNION (16079) O'Connell leans over a railing, addressing a braying crowd below, all with asses' heads. Hunt stands behind him, holding up a pot of his blacking (see British Museum Satires No. 16575). O'C: 'Brothers, for ye are...
Description:
Titles etched above or below the individual images.
Publisher:
T. McLean
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847, Hunt, Henry, 1773-1835, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833, Schwarzenberg, Felix, Fürst zu, 1800-1852, Digby, Jane Elizabeth, 1807-1881, Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of, 1784-1860, Clanricarde, Ulick de Burgh, Earl of, 1604-1657., and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Donkeys, Graffiti, Signs (Notices), Theatrical productions, Rain, Frogs, Taxes, Reform, Corsets, Adultery, Faces, Veterans' benefits, Disabled veterans, and Amputees
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Kean as Richard III, in the usual costume of the part, see British Museum Satires No. 12325, &c., postures on Bosworth Field with drawn sword and declaims: "Methins [sic] there be six Richmonds in the field; five have I kill'd to day instead of him;!...
Alternative Title:
New reading, or, Shakespeare improved, Shakspeare improved, and Shakespeare improved
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833, Bucke, Charles, 1781-1846., and Richard II, King of England, 1367-140.
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Kean as Richard III, in the usual costume of the part, see British Museum Satires No. 12325, &c., postures on Bosworth Field with drawn sword and declaims: "Methins [sic] there be six Richmonds in the field; five have I kill'd to day instead of him;!...
Alternative Title:
New reading, or, Shakespeare improved, Shakspeare improved, and Shakespeare improved
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833, Bucke, Charles, 1781-1846., and Richard II, King of England, 1367-140.
"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)
