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- Creator:
- Green, Valentine, 1739-1813, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [2 April 1769]
- Call Number:
- 769.04.02.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Portrait of David Garrick standing whole-length to front with legs crossed and leaning on a bust of Shakespeare that stands on a plinth in a garden; he holds a stick in his left hand as he looks to the right; the Palladian bridge at Prior Park can be seen in the distance at the right
- Description:
- Title, artist, and printmaker scratched with production and publication detail below image.
- Publisher:
- Published April 2nd 1769, by J. Boydell Cheapside No. 90
- Subject (Name):
- Garrick, David, 1717-1779
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > David Garrick, Esqr [graphic]
- Creator:
- Silvester, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1817]
- Call Number:
- File 66 817 S58+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An engraved ticket to the retirement dinner for John Philip Kemble. At the top, a portrait of Kemble's head, irradiated. The text is surrounded by garlands; at the base a banner with a quote from Hamlet "The observed, all observers" woven through a lyre, a mask above
- Alternative Title:
- Ticket to farewell dinner for John Philip Kemble
- Description:
- Title from engraved text., Signed: Secretaries., "Not transferable"-- Engraved above mask., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., The farewell dinner was held 27 June 1817 at the Freemasons' Tavern. See the Dictionary of National Biography., and Mounted to sheet 32 x 26 cm with watermark "1821".
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823.
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Farewell dinner to J.P. Kemble Esqr. on his retirement from the stage admit [blank] / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Ward, James, 1769-1859, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 April 1801]
- Call Number:
- Portraits C772 no. 1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of George Frederick Cooke as Iago in Shakespeare's 'Othello'; standing three-quarter to front with plumed hat in his left hand, his left arm close to his waist, turned to face left; wearing cloak over slashed, embroidered doublet and ruff with tassles"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., One line of verse below title: Oh, beware, my Lord of jealousy., and Library's impression with multiple tears, glued on buckram mount.
- Publisher:
- Published April 21, 1801, by Messrs. Wards, & Co. N. 6, Newman Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- Cooke, George Frederick, 1756-1812,
- Subject (Topic):
- Iago (Fictitious character), Fictitious characters, Actors, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > G.F. Cooke, Esqr. in the character of Iago [graphic]
- Creator:
- Romanet, Antoine Louis, 1748-1807, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1807]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 807.00.00.01 Box 140
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait of David Garrick in the role of Richard III, bust only, taken from Hogarth's painting of him awakening from his troubled dream in the tent before the battle of Bosworth Field; in oval in rectangular brick frame with tablet below
- Description:
- Title engraved in tablet within image., Printmaker active in Basle., After the painting in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. See O'Connell, S. London 1753 (2004), pages 135-6., and For a discussion of the original print see: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 165.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Garrick, David, 1717-1779, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dramatic production, Actors, British, and Portrayals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Garrick dans le role de Richard III tragedie de Shakespear, act 5, sce 7 / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Miller, J., printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [August 1769]
- Call Number:
- 769.08.00.06
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- 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,
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, British, and Authors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Garrick. Shakespear [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1781]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 31. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The actor Charles Bannister, standing, dressed as Polly Peachum, with a small lace cap and wide bow at the waist, holding a closed fan in front of him in his right hand, looking away to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printed on one sheet with a portrait also by Sayers: Miss Farren., and Mounted on page 49 with one other print.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bannister, Charles, 1738-1804 and Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, British, and Costumes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Bannister in the character of Miss Polly Peachum [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1781]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 31. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The actor Charles Bannister, standing, dressed as Polly Peachum, with a small lace cap and wide bow at the waist, holding a closed fan in front of him in his right hand, looking away to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printed on one sheet with a portrait also by Sayers: Miss Farren., 1 print : etching and aquatint with stipple engraving and roulette on wove paperr ; plate mark 24.9 x 17.4 cm, on sheet 26.8 x 19.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 31 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bannister, Charles, 1738-1804 and Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, British, and Costumes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Bannister in the character of Miss Polly Peachum [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1781]
- Call Number:
- 781.00.00.24+
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 31. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The actor Charles Bannister, standing, dressed as Polly Peachum, with a small lace cap and wide bow at the waist, holding a closed fan in front of him in his right hand, looking away to the left."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printed on one sheet with a portrait also by Sayers: Miss Farren., and Mounted to 56 x 37 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Bannister, Charles, 1738-1804 and Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, British, and Costumes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Bannister in the character of Miss Polly Peachum [graphic]
- Creator:
- Finlayson, John, 1730-1776, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Novr. 30th, 1769.
- Call Number:
- Drawer 769.11.30.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Mr. Foote and Mr. Weston in the characters of the President and Dr. Last
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Some slight tears and loss along edges., and For further information, consult Library staff.
- Publisher:
- Sold by Mr. Zoffany in Lincoln's Inn Fields ; Mr. Finlayson & Mr. Parker at No. 82 in Cornhill
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777 ,, Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777., and Weston, Thomas, 1737-1776,
- Subject (Topic):
- Characters and Actors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Foote & Mr. Weston in the characters of the President & Dr. Last [graphic]