"Portrait of Samuel Foote in character; whole length, standing, wearing the latest 'French' fashions, including large fur muff, wig with pointed sides, mis-matched tights, and coat with over-sized cuffs; his outfit is scrutinized by two English gentle...
Alternative Title:
Buck metamorphosed and Mr. Foote in the character of the Englishman return'd from Paris
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for John Ryall & Robt. Withy, at Hogarth's Head in Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777. and Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777
A theatre scene; a man on stage holding a long cane leans towards the box stage left saying: 'Bucks of the Boxes, sneer and talk aloud! I don't mean you.' The rotund young man at the front of the box says 'Boo Boo'; he holds an unfurled sheet of paper...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decemr. 10th, 1811, by Wm. Holland, No. 11 Cockspur St.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Theater audiences, Staffs (Sticks), and Stages (Platforms)
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:
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
Hopwood & Crew, 42 New Bond St. W, Stannard & Co 7 Poland St., and All rights reserved & entd. Stas. Hall, Septr. 20th 1869, According to Act of Parlnt
Subject (Topic):
Diseases, Humorous songs, Actors, and Sick persons
Letters, manuscript poems, financial papers, and other documents relating to David Garrick and his tenure as manager of the Drury Lane Theatre. Letters include a lengthy 1751 letter from Richard Berenger describing theaters and operas in Paris; transc...
Description:
David Garrick (1717-1779) was the most celebrated Shakespearean actor of his time and the successful manager of the Drury Lane Theatre for almost three decades.
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Berenger, Richard, 1719 or 1720-1782., Garrick, David, 1717-1779., Garrick, Peter., Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776., O'Brien, William, -1815., Rackett, Thomas, 1757-1841., and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Landscape painting, English, Theater, and Theatrical managers
Portrait of David Garrick standing whole-length to front with legs crossed and leaning on a bust of Shakespeare that stands on a plinth in a garden; he holds a stick in his left hand as he looks to the right; the Palladian bridge at Prior Park can be ...
Description:
Title, artist, and printmaker scratched with production and publication detail below image.
Publisher:
Published April 2nd 1769, by J. Boydell Cheapside No. 90
A German copy of Hogarth's "The Discovery" (1743?): a scene in a bedoom where four gentlemen stand beside a curtained bed in which a black woman reclines; she reaches out to touch the chin of one of the men who has evidently just pulled back the curta...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Highmore, John, 1694-1759,
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Actors, British, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, Practical jokes, Prostitutes, and Women
99 letters from Lady Dorothy Tennant Stanley to the actor, Constant Coquelin, discussing affairs of the Comédie-Française, political events, including colonial engagements in Africa, particularly those with which her husband, the explorer Henry Mor...
Description:
Chiefly in French, some letters in English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and France.
Subject (Name):
Coquelin, Constant, 1841-1909., Stanley, Dorothy, Lady, 1855-1926., and Stanley, Henry M. 1841-1904. (Henry Morton),
