Progress of a player [graphic]

Description

Title: Progress of a player [graphic]
Creator: Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
Contributor: Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [11 February 1793]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by W. Holland Feb. 11, 1793 No. 50 Oxford Street
Abstract: A satire on the theatre; an aspiring actor is shown in eight separate scenes
Description: Title from item.
Statement of responsibility and dimensions from impression in the British Museum online catalog (Registration no. 1948,0214.339).
Description based on imperfect impression; individual images and title trimmed, rearranged and remounted, with loss of printmaker signature and portion of imprint.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Richard M. Ford; June 2011.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 47 x 63 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1793
Etchings England London 1793
Material: etching ; and wove hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Subject (Topic): Theater
Actors
Subjects: Theater > Great Britain > Caricatures and cartoons
Actors > Great Britain > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1793
England > London > 1793

Access: Public
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