"Portrait of the actress Charlotte Walpole dressed as a sentry in her role as Nancy in R.B. Sheridan's 'The Camp', an infantry soldier standing pointing and directed to left, holding rifle against left elbow, wearing cocked hat on powdered hair with a cockade, a thatched cottage in background to right with a sign lettered 'CW', the tents of a military camp in a field down the hill to left; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Early state, before title changed to "Nancy" and before verses added below image. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1906,0419.130., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 99 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 22d, 1780, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Atkyns, Charlotte Walpole, Lady, approximately 1758-1836,
Subject (Topic):
Actresses, Soldiers, Guards, Military camps, and Theatrical productions
Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and
Image Count:
1
Description:
Facing p. 72.
Subject (Geographic):
California --Description and travel, Chihuahua (Mexico : State) --Description and travel, Mexico --Boundaries --United States, New Mexico --Description and travel, Sonora (Mexico : State) --Description and travel, Texas --Description and travel, and United States --Boundaries --Mexico
Title etched below image., After title: Vide Roderick Random, Vol. I, Chap. XXXIV., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Interiors: hold of a ship -- Furniture: slipcovered settee -- Weapons: cannon -- Seasickness -- Medicine: smelling salts.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, May 12, 1800, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
