[Four characters from The rivals] [art original].

Description

Title: [Four characters from The rivals] [art original].
Creator: Loftie, W., artist
Published / Created: [ca. 1794]
Publication Place: England
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.
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.
Provenance: Formerly owned by R.B. Sheridan (the dramatist's grandson), who undertook the copious extra-illustration of the volumes. Later owned by Sheridan's descendant Lady Wavertree. Sold at Sotheby's, 25 May 1954 (Lady Wavertree sale), lot 266, to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 4 drawings : sheets approximately 20 x 14 cm, inlaid to 51 x 36 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Collection Title: Volume 1, opposite page 102. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Collection / Other Creator: Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852.
Collection Date: London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825.

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Caricatures
Portrait drawings
Watercolors
Watermarks (Paper) J. Whatman 1794
Material: watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
Dodd, James William, 1740?-1796
Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829
Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823
Johnstone, John Henry, 1749-1828
Subject (Topic): Actors
British
Theatrical productions
Subjects: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Dodd, James William, 1740?-1796 > Caricatures and cartoons
Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829 > Caricatures and cartoons
Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823 > Caricatures and cartoons
Johnstone, John Henry, 1749-1828 > Caricatures and cartoons
Actors > British
Theatrical productions
J. Whatman > 1794
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1809 or 1810-1888 > Ownership
Wavertree, Florence Lothrop Sheridan Walker, Lady, 1872-1952 > Ownership

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Citation: W. Loftie, Four Characters from The Rivals. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.