Volume 3, before page 159. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A stage scene with five performers in Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera'; a prison scene with three men standing and two women on their knees; a forgery purporting to be a benefit ticket for Thomas Walker for his performance as Macheath."--British Museum onl...
Description:
Title from text within ribbon at top of image; remainder of title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732., Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744,, and Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760,
"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...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
Read, Richard, approximately 1745-approximately 1800, printmaker
Published / Created:
[11 April 1778]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of the actress Anne Brown (later Cargill) as the character Louisa from Sheridan's comic opera 'The Duenna'; half-length, directed and looking three-quarters to right, smiling and lifting from her face with her left hand a voluminous veil, wh...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 11, 1778, by J. Walker, No. 13, Parliament Street
Subject (Name):
Cargill, Ann, 1760?-1784, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
One of a collection of four similar images; the other three images are titled: Mr. Kean as Othello; Miss Hargraves as Amy; Miss Bartolozzi as the page in The marriage of Figaro. Formerly part of an album (now lost), each on the same size sheet but di...
Alternative Title:
Madame Vestris as Don Giovanni
Description:
Title written at bottom of sheet.
Subject (Name):
Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi, 1797-1856,, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791., and Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838.
Subject (Topic):
Characters, Actresses, British, and Operas & operettas
"Portrait of Anna Friedrike Heinel, in character; whole length, dancing, in costume; wearing layered skirt, bodice with garland, beads and feather in hair, and choker; after Brandoin."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mlle Heinel in the character of a sultana and Mademoiselle Heinel in the character of a sultana
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside, as the act directs
