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- Published / Created:
- [1790?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings Un58 no. 20 Box D155
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Full-length portait depicting Moses Kean imitating actor John Henderson in the grave scene in Hamlet. A picture on the wall behind Moses contains a likeness of the original scene with Henderson in the same character and attitude. Kean is directed right, head facing left wearing a tricorn hat; he has a wooden leg and arms outstrected to right hold a handkerchief
- Alternative Title:
- Moses Kean as Hamlet
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Printed clipping pasted to mount and dated 'Nov. 4 [18]26' in contemporary ms. hand: The late Moses Kean was a tailor, a stout-built man, with black bushy hair, and a wooden leg ... He was a very extraordinary mimic, particularly in imitation of C.J. Fox, which he gave occassionally at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket. Mr. Edmund Kean, the celebrated actor, owes his education to the above person, wo was his uncle. -Nollekens and his Times., Copy of an 18th century etching titled Mr. Kean's imitation of Henderson's Hamlet., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Name):
- Kean, Moses, -1792,, Henderson, John, 1747-1785, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Subject (Topic):
- Performances, Portrait drawings, Actors, Imitation, Peg legs, and Handkerchiefs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Moses Kean's imitation of Henderson's Hamlet] [art original].
3.
- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1792]
- Call Number:
- Drawings B87 no. 24 Box D200
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two men gently lay an unconscious woman down on a soft mound of turf in the forest while a third man and two dogs observe the effort. The three men are armed with quivers of arrows and swords
- Alternative Title:
- Three men rescuing an injured woman and Supposed death of Imogen
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Attributed to Bunbury., Date from local catalog card., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Name):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Subject (Topic):
- Wounds & injuries, Loss of consciousness, Dogs, and Rescues
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Three men, two dogs, injured woman] [art original].