Multi-title collection including Mr. John Reeve in the whole of his characters in Bachelors
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene in a bank: actor John Liston as the comic character Paul Pry, quizzing glass raised to his eyes, stands at the desk of a red-faced banker (left) who sits with quill pen in hand, another behind his ear, lower lip jutting out as he glares at hi...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by Ingrey & Madeley, Lithogc. Office, 310 Strand
Facius, Georg Sigmund, approximately 1750- printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 June 1791]
Call Number:
Drawer 724 803B no. 80
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man laying the seeming dead Juliet out on a bed, as the friar gestures to heaven, trying to comfort her mother, who approaches clasping her hands together."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published June 4th, 1791, by John & Josiah Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall & at No. 90 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
"Falstaff sitting on a long bench with Justice Shallow and Silence beside him, asking Thomas Wart, who is dressed in rags, the head of a mottley collection of locals who queue behind, to parade with a gun."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Shakspeare. Second part of King Henry the Fourth. Act III. Scene 2 : Justice Shallow's seat in Gloustershire and Second part of King Henry the Fourth. Act III. Scene 2 : Justice Shallow's seat in Gloustershire
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1, 1798, by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall; & No. 90 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Shallow, Justice (Fictitious character),, and Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character),
Subject (Topic):
Characters, Justice Shallow, Benches, Firearms, Axes, and Shields
A satire on William Dodd, the scandalous "macaroni parson". Dodd (or perhaps the actor in Samuel Foote’s play The Cozeners, which represented Dodd through the character Doctor Simony) is depicted with all the trappings of his "macaroni" lifestyle, inc...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 21 May 1777 by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho
Subject (Name):
Dodd, William, 1729-1777 and Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777.
Subject (Topic):
Characters, Clergy, Vice, Bottles, Corkscrews, Dandies, British, and Pipes (Smoking)
Simon, John Peter, -approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 June 1793]
Call Number:
Drawer 724 803B no. 93
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"King Leontes, furious with the delusion that Mamilius is not his son but a bastard, pointing at the child with his left hand, orders Antigonus, who has defended Hermione's honour and saved the child from being thrown into the fire, to prove his loyal...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 4, 1793, by John & Josiah Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall & No. 90, Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
From the series: Twelve characters from Shakespeare. An almost half-length portrait in an oval, with the character facing to left and weeping onto a blooded cloth held to his right eye; thin double-lined border around the edges of the plate
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 15, 1776, by J. Mortimer, Norfolk Street, Strand
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
