"Portrait of David Garrick after Reynolds (Mannings 705); seated half-length slightly to left, eyes to front, hands together on papers on table with inkstand and books before him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & publish'd as the Act directs Jany. 30th 1779 by J. Stevens opposite Hatton Garden, Holborn
"Garrick standing on the right, declaiming in front of a full-length statue of Shakespeare surrounded by characters from the plays"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text inscribed within image: "Shakespeare"., Text inscribed within cartouche below image: "Can British gratitude delay ... We ne'er shall look upon his like again ... See Garrick's Ode to Shakespeare.", Dedication on either side of cartouche: "To Mrs. Montagu, this plate is most respectfully inscribed.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to sheet 711 x 559 mm.
Publisher:
Published March 1, 1783 by R.E. Pine, Albemarle Street
Portrait of David Garrick, seated at a desk, with his wife standing behind him, reaching to grasp the pen that he is holding in his right hand and "Portrait of David Garrick, three-quarter length, seated at a writing table, to the left, looking at viewer, his head supported by right hand, which also holds a quill, his right elbow resting on table; pointing down to the right with left hand; behind him his wife stands, reaching over the back of the chair towards the desk with her right hand, looking down towards Garrick."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The art-journal. [London] : [George Virtue], February 1855, opposite page 42., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression at the Massachusetts Historical Society, call no.: Special Colls. Waterston autograph vol. 2., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 613 (leaf numbered '47' in pencil) in volume 4 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published for the proprietors
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779,, Garrick, Eva Maria, 1724-1822,, Garrick, David, 1717-1779., and Garrick, Eva Maria, 1724-1822.
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 700); standing three-quarter length between Comedy and Tragedy, smiling towards the latter, but allowing the former to tug him towards her; landscape behind"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Garrick, between tragedy and comedy
Description:
Title engraved below image., Text directly beneath lower margin of image: Class 1 painting for "the Fine Arts of the English School.", Text below statement of responsibility: To John Philip Kemble Esq., who from a laudable regard to historical property and to the merits of our great national dramatist has revived many of his admired plays in a style honourable to himself and to the character of the Brtitish stage, this plate, with the annexed essay, are inscribed by J. Britton., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and bottom.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1, 1811 by Longman & Co. Paternoster Row, J. Taylor, High Holburn & W. Bond, Newman Street and Printed by Hayward
Portrait of David Garrick standing whole-length to front with legs crossed and leaning on bust of Shakespeare that stands on a plinth in a garden; he holds stick in his left hand, looking to right; folly beside river, beyond at right
Description:
Title, artist, and printmaker scratched with production and publication detail below image.
Publisher:
London Magazine
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616,
"David Garrick, on the left, is lifted from his tomb by two angels, and flown towards the summit of the mount in background, to meet Apollo and the muses; the tomb is supported by the figures of Lyric Poetry and the Belles Lettres, a relief on the front shows Nature weeping over a medallion of Garrick; to the right of the tomb are a group of seventeen theatrical persons, drressed in their favourite Shakespearian characters; descending the mount towards Garrick are Thalia, Melpomene and Shakespeare."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Accompanied by a key in French on a separate sheet (21 x 34 cm.). Seventeen bust portraits of actors and actresses shown in the print are at top of the key sheet and are identified by name below title, Ils sont tous dans leurs roles favoris du Shakespeare. The list of names is followed by Explication du dessein., Accompanying key housed in separate folder., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs January 20 1783 by G. Carter Margt. Street Cavendish Square
"David Garrick, on the left, is lifted from his tomb by two angels, and flown towards the summit of the mount in background, to meet Apollo and the muses; the tomb is supported by the figures of Lyric Poetry and the Belles Lettres, a relief on the front shows Nature weeping over a medallion of Garrick; to the right of the tomb are a group of seventeen theatrical persons, drressed in their favourite Shakespearian characters; descending the mount towards Garrick are Thalia, Melpomene and Shakespeare."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Accompanied by a key in French on a separate sheet (21 x 34 cm.). Seventeen bust portraits of actors and actresses shown in the print are at top of the key sheet and are identified by name below title, Ils sont tous dans leurs roles favoris du Shakespeare. The list of names is followed by Explication du dessein., Accompanying key housed in separate folder., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs January 20 1783 by G. Carter Margt. Street Cavendish Square
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The London magazine; or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : Printed for R. Baldwin, v. 88 (1749), p. 282., Not in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits ... in the British Museum., and Window mounted to 15 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Baldwin junr. at [the] Rose in Pater Noster Row
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779, and Garrick, Eva Marie, 1724-1822,
Saunders, Joseph, active 1772-1800, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[24 June 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Half length, seated at a table in profile facing left, looking at a miniature of Shakespeare, a long stick over his shoulder; published state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1902,1011.4098., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 18 (leaf numbered '74' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs June 24, 1773, & sold by J. Saunders, at Mr. Deschamps Upholder in Compton Street, Soho
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616,
Subject (Topic):
Miniatures (Paintings), Dramatists, Actors, and British