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1. Hamlet in Scotland a large manager in a great character / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- pubd. Decr. 6th, 1794.
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 23. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The enormously fat Stephen Kemble, as Hamlet, gesticulates, right arm extended, left arm thrown back, fingers (very large) pointing awkwardly; his head is turned in profile to the left. He wears quasi-contemporary dress, much dishevelled, with a star and ribbon from which hangs the elephant of the Danish order."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publisher from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,2.22., Two lines of text from Hamlet are etched below title: ---------- that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well; they imitated humanity so abominably., Leaf 23 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching and stipple engraving on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 22.5 x 16.1 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Figure identified as "Stephen Kemble" in pencil below plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Name):
- Kemble, Stephen, 1758-1822
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, British, Obesity, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Hamlet in Scotland a large manager in a great character / [graphic]
2. We serve a King whom we love - a God whom we adore. Pizarro [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [June 1799]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 26. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Kemble (scarcely caricatured), as Rolla (the noble Peruvian), stands with his left hand pointing upwards, his right arm thrown back, his head in profile to the right. He wears quasi-classical dress, with barbarian adornments, feathered head-dress, heavy gold belt, and ornaments. The costume appears substantially correct, with some exaggeration of the gold chains and ornaments."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Leaf 26 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Figure identified as "Kemble" in pencil below plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Name):
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, British, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > We serve a King whom we love - a God whom we adore. Pizarro [graphic]
3. [Four characters from The rivals] [art original].
- Creator:
- Loftie, W., artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1794]
- Call Number:
- Folio 53 Sh52 M78
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, opposite page 102. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Collective title devised by cataloger., Each drawing has the title of Sheridan's play "The Rivals" written in ink above, as well as the depicted actor's name, the name of the character portrayed, the theater name, and the performance date written in ink below., Statement of responsibility "by W. Loftie" added in pencil for each drawing, in lower right corner of sheet., Date from partially trimmed watermark on sheet of upper right drawing: 1794 [J. W]hatman., and Mounted together opposite page 102 (leaf numbered '154' in pencil) in volume 1 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., Dodd, James William, 1740?-1796, Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829, Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823, and Johnstone, John Henry, 1749-1828
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, British, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Four characters from The rivals] [art original].