- 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]
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