Hamlet in Scotland a large manager in a great character / [graphic]

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Title: Hamlet in Scotland a large manager in a great character / [graphic]
Creator: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
Contributor: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist, publisher.
Published / Created: pubd. Decr. 6th, 1794.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Robert Dighton
Abstract: "The enormously fat Stephen Kemble, as Hamlet, gesticulates, right arm extended, left arm thrown back, fingers (very large) pointing awkwardly; his head is turned in profile to the left. He wears quasi-contemporary dress, much dishevelled, with a star and ribbon from which hangs the elephant of the Danish order."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Publisher from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,2.22.
Two lines of text from Hamlet are etched below title: ---------- that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well; they imitated humanity so abominably.
Leaf 23 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
1 print : etching and stipple engraving on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 22.5 x 16.1 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
Figure identified as "Stephen Kemble" in pencil below plate mark.
Provenance: Sold at Dominic Winter Auctions, 9 October 2020, lot 502, purchased through Jarndyce; October 2020.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 22.3 x 16.2 cm, on sheet 35 x 27 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English