[A shadowbox framed depiction of two actors in performance] [art original].

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Title: [A shadowbox framed depiction of two actors in performance] [art original].
Alternative Title: Shadow box framed depiction two actors in performance
Published / Created: [early 19th century]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: The dancer wearing a Roman toga is perhaps David Garrick, with Mrs. Siddons accompanying him on the lute. In his imaginary journey through time, Three tours through London in the years 1748, 1776, 1797 (New Haven, 1941), Wilmarth S. Lewis 'goes' to the London theatre of 1776 where "Garrick still requires that those playing a scene with him shall turn their backs to the audience when addresssing him so that there will be no question whatever of its attention being diverted from him. Failure to observe this rule ... caused young Mrs. Siddons to fall into disfavour and contributed to her dismissal from the company."
Description: One of a pair of shadowboxes. The other box is titled: A shadowbox framed depiction David Garrick on stage.
Provenance from a label affixed to the top of one of a pair of boxes, in Mrs. Lewis hand.
Provenance: Formerly owned by the Vestris (Mrs. Charles Mathews, Lucia Elizabeth Mathews 1797-1856, daughter of the engraver Gaetano Bartolozzi) and were given by the Lewises to Winchell Smith (the playwright) in 1832 and on his death came back to the Lewises.
Extent: 1 object : 14.5 x 12.5 x 3.5 inches
Language: English

Material: watercolor on paper with silk fabrics, wood, and feathers, in a wooden frame ;
Resource Type: three-dimensional form
Subject (Name): Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831.
Subject (Topic): Actors
British
Subjects: Garrick, David, 1717-1779
Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
Actors > British
Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi, 1797-1856 > Ownership

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