"Kemble (scarcely caricatured), as Rolla (the noble Peruvian), stands with his left hand pointing upwards, his right arm thrown back, his head in profile to the right. He wears quasi-classical dress, with barbarian adornments, feathered head-dress, heavy gold belt, and ornaments. The costume appears substantially correct, with some exaggeration of the gold chains and ornaments."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Leaf 26 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Figure identified as "Kemble" in pencil below plate mark.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823
Theatrical scene from Henry IV, Part 2, Act iii, scene 2. Justice Shallow and Justice Silence present to Falstaff the recruits they have round up from the countryside. The rotund Falstaff sits at a table covered with documents and points at one of the recruits while widely grinning
Description:
Title from W.N. Gardiner's published engraving after this drawing., Date supplied by cataloger., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character) and Theatrical productions
Theatrical scene from Henry IV, Part 2, Act iii, scene 2. Justice Shallow and Justice Silence present to Falstaff the recruits they have round up from the countryside. The rotund Falstaff sits at a table covered with documents and points at one of the recruits while widely grinning
Description:
Title from W.N. Gardiner's published engraving after this drawing., Date supplied by cataloger., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character) and Theatrical productions
Theatrical scene from Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 2, Act V, Scene 5. Henry stands at the center of the scene delivering his public rebuke of Falstaff after Falstaff and his companions (Shallow, Pistol, and Bardolph) approach the King immediately following his coronation
Description:
Title from Shenner etching after this drawing., Date supplied by cataloger., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Henry IV, King of England, 1367-1413
Subject (Topic):
Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character), Theatrical productions, and British
Volume 1, opposite page 102. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Collective title devised by cataloger., Each drawing has the title of Sheridan's play "The Rivals" written in ink above, as well as the depicted actor's name, the name of the character portrayed, the theater name, and the performance date written in ink below., Statement of responsibility "by W. Loftie" added in pencil for each drawing, in lower right corner of sheet., Date from partially trimmed watermark on sheet of upper right drawing: 1794 [J. W]hatman., and Mounted together opposite page 102 (leaf numbered '154' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., Dodd, James William, 1740?-1796, Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829, Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823, and Johnstone, John Henry, 1749-1828
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1774]
Call Number:
Bunbury 774.02.23.01.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A bench in a kitchen on which are seated, from left to right: a coachman half asleep, in brown breeches and waistcoat and green coat, his stockings falling down; a huge cook seated facing us, arms akimbo, in brown, with a blue and white kerchief; and a rather drowsy black boy in brown breeches and green waistcoat with sleeves. A shelf with pots and pans on it is on the wall to the left. At the extreme right is a grandfather clock, brown with a yellow face. There are two drawings pinned to the wall, the top one of a fat gentleman in blue asleep in a chair, the other of a bald man in brown
Description:
Title and publication date from later state., Early state. For later state with title, imprint, and other text added below image, see Lewis Walpole call no.: Bunbury 774.02.23.01.2+., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right side of upper edge., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Theater: High life below stairs -- Amateur theatricals., Imperfect; printmaker's signature mostly erased from lower right corner of sheet., An additional shelf with five plates added in watercolor to upper left corner of design., Title added below image in a contemporary hand: High life below stairs., and Lines of dialogue added below image in a contemporary hand: Blackee you go! Cook, Sambo, answer the door. Cookey you go!
Title, artist, and date of publication from original oil painting in Victoria and Albert Museum, museum no.: DYCE.80. and Sheet trimmed close to plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
British.
Subject (Name):
Liston, John, 1776-1846, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Fäsch, Johann Ludwig Wernhard, approximately 1738-1778, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1778]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of a man and woman, standing across from one another and apparently engaged in conversation. The man, standing on the left and facing right, gestures toward the woman with his left hand; he wears a blue jacket and breeches, has a holstered sword on his left hip, and holds a tricorne in his right hand. The woman, standing on the right and facing left, wears a purple and green dress and holds a fan(?) in her right hand. Possibly a depiction of a scene from a play
Description:
Title devised by curator., Artist attribution from manuscript note on paper label mounted below the set of drawings: Drawn by Fesch., Place of production based on artist's main city of activity; date of production based on artist's death date., One of four small drawings of English and French comedians mounted together on one page. Horace Walpole presumably kept similar drawings by Fäsch in his bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 113 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
Fäsch, Johann Ludwig Wernhard, approximately 1738-1778, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1778]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of a man, standing and turned towards the left. He wears a long white coat, open and unbuttoned, his blue waistcoat and breeches visible beneath. In his outstretched right hand is a tricorne; in his left hand, pulled in close to the hip, is a walking stick. Possibly a depiction of an actor in performance
Description:
Title devised by curator., Artist attribution from manuscript note on paper label mounted below the set of drawings: Drawn by Fesch., Place of production based on artist's main city of activity; date of production based on artist's death date., One of four small drawings of English and French comedians mounted together on one page. Horace Walpole presumably kept similar drawings by Fäsch in his bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 113 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., and For further information, consult library staff.