Mr. John Henry Johnstone in the character of Sir Lucious O'Trigger stands dressed in a green regimental coat with yellow lapels, white breeches, white gloves, and tall, black boots. He stands leaning on a cane which he holds in his right hand; his left arm is across his chest, and he holds his cocked hat in his left hand
Description:
Title written in black ink below image., Suggested attribution by seller: Richard (Robert?) Dighton., and John Henry Johnstone (1749-1828), Irish actor and singer, was perhaps best known for his role in Richard Cumberland's The West Indian (1785), also portrayed Sir Lucius O'Trigger in Richard Sheridan's the Rivals in 1792.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Johnstone, John Henry, 1749-1828
Subject (Topic):
Portraits, Actors, British, and Theatrical productions
One of a collection of four similar images; the others in this series are: Miss Hargraves as Amy; 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. In this image, a full-length image of Edmund Kean as Othello constructed from parts of a print or prints while his costume and hat and their trimming are cut from satin cloth with additional decorated paper trimming and small metal buttons. This image is the only one of the four mounted on a secondary sheet, this one ruled as if from a ledger
Description:
Title written at bottom of sheet., Statement of responsibility written at top of sheet; "the author" is unidentified., and Date of production from recipient's note on the verso of one of the collages and other internal evidence.
Subject (Name):
Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Stump, S. J., approximately 1783-1863, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[2 December 1819]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of the actor Edmund Kean, in character in Payne's 'Brutus'; half length, turned slightly left but looking to the right; wearing a tunic with a broach at the left shoulder; in an oval
Description:
Title etched below image., "Proof"--Lower right corner of plate., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 688 (leaf numbered '134' 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:
S.J. Stump
Subject (Name):
Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833, and Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852.
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,
Title from text below image., Place of publication based on sitter's known place of activity., and Date of publication based on year sitter debuted on the London stage as Robin Roughhead in Fortune's frolic; see Oxford Dictionary of national biography, entry for Edward Knight (1774-1826).
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Knight, Edward, 1774-1826, and Allingham, John Till, active 1799-1810.
Title from caption below image., Place and date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Six lines of dialogue below title: Stay! stay you infatuated wretches, you know not what ye do, the Doctor is innocent I say he is innocent, touch not a hair of his precious head ..., and Scene from Act 5 of the Hypocrite by Isaac Bickerstaff.
Title from text below image., Below title: "My conscience"., and Plate from: Liston's characters : six coloured engravings. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean ..., 1826.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
Soane, George, 1790-1860. and Liston, John, 1776-1846.
Leaf 55. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text below image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 826.00.00.78., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], One of six plates originally issued in: Liston's characters : six coloured engravings. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean ..., 1826., Below title: "My conscience"., and On leaf 55 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Soane, George, 1790-1860. and Liston, John, 1776-1846.
Title from text below image., Plate from: Liston's characters : six coloured engravings. London : Published by Thomas M'Lean ..., 1826., and Below title: "Prodigious".
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
Terry, Daniel, 1782-1829. and Liston, John, 1776-1846.
