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1. (Mr. Liston in his principal characters) [graphic]
- Creator:
- Marks, John Lewis, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1825?]
- Call Number:
- 825.00.00.43+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from text above images., Nine images on one plate, eight in two rows; the center image of Liston as Paul Pry is two columns high., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Liston, John, 1776-1846
- Subject (Topic):
- Performances, Actors, British, Actors, British, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > (Mr. Liston in his principal characters) [graphic]
2. Bannister as Whiskerandos in The critic [art original]
- Creator:
- De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1806]
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, opposite page 198. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- John Bannister (as Whiskerandos in 'The critic')
- Description:
- Title written in pencil in lower right corner. Alternative title from note in ink on mounting sheet: John Bannister (as Whiskerandos in 'The Critic')., Signed and dated by the artist in pencil., Possibly the original design for an engraving by R. Smith that was published by John Cawthorn in 1806; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1933,1014.421. See also: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 116. For a brief mention of De Wilde's portrait of Bannister as Whiskerandos, and the engraving after it by Smith, see: A biographical dictionary of actors, actresses, musicians, dancers, managers & other stage personnel in London, 1600-1800, v.1, pages 272-3., and Mounted opposite page 198 (leaf numbered '9' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Subject (Name):
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Bannister, John, 1760-1836,
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, British, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bannister as Whiskerandos in The critic [art original]
3. Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1 July 1790]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either side of him, his wife and lover are kneeling before their respective fathers, pleading for intervention on Macheath's behalf; in the background, a group of male figures (Macheath's gang?). Each figure is numbered and listed below under the appropriate category -- performers or audience
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Key plate to the painting by Hogarth and the engraving after it by William Blake., Mounted on page 162 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 14.6 x 22 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Annotated by Horace Walpole in pencil in lower right corner: Some of the figures in the boxes are different from those in Mr. Walpole's picture.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd July 1, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, British, Actresses, Audiences, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]
4. Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1 July 1790]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either side of him, his wife and lover are kneeling before their respective fathers, pleading for intervention on Macheath's behalf; in the background, a group of male figures (Macheath's gang?). Each figure is numbered and listed below under the appropriate category -- performers or audience
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Key plate to the painting by Hogarth and the engraving after it by William Blake., and On page 235 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: plate mark 14.5 x 21.9 cm, on sheet 15.4 x 22.7 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd July 1, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, British, Actresses, Audiences, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]
5. Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1 July 1790]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 790.07.01.09 Box 115
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either side of him, his wife and lover are kneeling before their respective fathers, pleading for intervention on Macheath's behalf; in the background, a group of male figures (Macheath's gang?). Each figure is numbered and listed below under the appropriate category -- performers or audience
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., and Key plate to the painting by Hogarth and the engraving after it by William Blake.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd July 1, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, British, Actresses, Audiences, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]
6. Buck metamorphos'd, or, Mr. Foote in the character of the Englishman return'd from Paris [graphic]
- Creator:
- Smith, Gabriel, 1724-1783, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.99+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Samuel Foote in character; whole length, standing, wearing the latest 'French' fashions, including large fur muff, wig with pointed sides, mis-matched tights, and coat with over-sized cuffs; his outfit is scrutinized by two English gentlemen to the right; two men in background, one preparing a hat, bending over a dressing table with mirror."--British Museum online catalogue and On the back wall are two large framed pictures, both with scenes from mythology. On the left, Apollo with bow and arrow pursues Daphne who has begun the turn into a laurel tree. On the right, Leda and the swan
- Alternative Title:
- Buck metamorphosed and Mr. Foote in the character of the Englishman return'd from Paris
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Date of publication based on the first performance of The Englishman returned from Paris, which premiered at Covent Garden Theatre in 1756., Probably published no later than 1760, when Robert Withy began trading on his own from a Cornhill address. His partnership with John Ryall, at the Fleet Street address listed here, is documented by prints and trade cards in the British Museum from the 1750s. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., For a probable reissue of this plate, published by C. Sheppard in the 1790s, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,60.14., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 231, no. 15., and Mounted to 37 x 27 cm.
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Ryall & Robt. Withy, at Hogarth's Head in Fleet Street
- Subject (Name):
- Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777. and Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777
- Subject (Topic):
- Performances, Actors, British, Clothing & dress, Comedies, Muffs, Dressing tables, Paintings, Supernatural beings, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Buck metamorphos'd, or, Mr. Foote in the character of the Englishman return'd from Paris [graphic]
7. Comic dance in the popular pantomime of The white cat by Messr. Kirby & Chatterley to the tune of The bold dragoon / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [5 January 1812]
- Call Number:
- 812.01.05.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The clowns Kirby and Chatterley, one dressed in female costume, dancing."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., The one character is identified as William Simmons Chatterley., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on laid paper backing.
- Publisher:
- Pub. 5th of Jany. 1812 by T. Palser, Bridge Road, Lambeth
- Subject (Name):
- Chatterley, William Simmons, 1787-1822. and Grimaldi, Joseph, 1779-1837.
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, British, Clowns, Dance, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Comic dance in the popular pantomime of The white cat by Messr. Kirby & Chatterley to the tune of The bold dragoon / [graphic]
8. Hamlet in Scotland a large manager in a great character / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- pubd. Decr. 6th, 1794.
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 23. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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., and Figure identified as "Stephen Kemble" in pencil below plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Name):
- Kemble, Stephen, 1758-1822
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, British, Obesity, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hamlet in Scotland a large manager in a great character / [graphic]
9. Hold! Pizarro, hear me! If not always justly, at least act always greatly. Pizarro [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [14 December 1799]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 28. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Mrs. Siddons as Elvira in 'Pizarro'. Her words are from Act III. iii (in Pizarro's tent). She stands with her head turned in profile to the left, right arm extended in a commanding gesture. She wears a high-waisted, quasi-classical dress, with a long cloak bordered with gold, folds of which are twisted round her left arm."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Theater: actors in performance -- Literature: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Pizarro, iii.3 -- Female costume: theater costume., Leaf 28 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 22.3 x 17.4 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Figure identified as "Siddons" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Name):
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
- Subject (Topic):
- Actresses, British, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hold! Pizarro, hear me! If not always justly, at least act always greatly. Pizarro [graphic]