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1. The mysterious mother Act 5, Scene 6 / [art original]
- Creator:
- Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808, artist
- Published / Created:
- 1776.
- Call Number:
- SH Contents B373 no. 6++ Box 300
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In Horace Walpole's 1784 edition of Description of the villa, he describes the Beauclerk drawings thus: "The beauty and grace of the figures and of the children are inimitable; the expression of the passions most masterly, particularly in the devotion of the countess with the porter, of Benedict in the scene with Martin, and the tenderness, despair, and resolution of the countess in the last scene; in which is a new stroke of double passion in Edmund, whose right hand is clenched and ready to strike with anger, the left hand relents. In the scene of the children, some are evidently vulgar, the others children of rank; and the first child, that pretends to look down and does leer upwards, is charming. Only two scenes are represented in all the seven, and yet all are varied; and the ground in the first, by a very uncommon effect, evidently descends and rises again. These sublime drawings are the first histories she ever attempted, were all conceived and executed in a fortnight."
- Description:
- Title, date and artist name written by Horace Walpole on the verso, in ink., One of six Beauclerk drawings for Mysterious mother in The Lewis Walpole Library., and Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Tragedies
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The mysterious mother Act 5, Scene 6 / [art original]
2. Tragedy burlesqued, or, The barber turned actor [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs 24 March 1788.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The interior of a barber's shop. The barber, ranting and gesticulating wildly, holds up the open tragedy of Alexander the Great; in his right hand is a pair of tongs. His hair hangs loose and on his head is his barber's basin. He is fashionably dressed, but wears an apron, which, blowing aside in his violent action, displays a large hole in his breeches. A stool, jug, &c, have been overturned, hair-pins lie on the ground, a cat flees in alarm. His little apprentice (left), holding a wig and a tress of hair, looks on with amusement, as do a man and woman (right) who look over a flight of stairs which ascends from the room. The room is a poor one, with plaster coming from the wall, a broken candle on the chimney-piece, over which is a torn print of a tragedy-king reclining on a couch. Two wig-boxes stand on the floor, one inscribed 'Tragedy Wigs', the other 'Comedy Wigs'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Numbered "588" in lower left corner., No. 38 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, Apprentices, Barbers, Barber shops, Cats, Dressing & grooming equipment, Interiors, Laughter, Hairdressing, Poverty, Tragedies, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Tragedy burlesqued, or, The barber turned actor [graphic].
