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1. [Actor declaiming] [art original]
- Creator:
- Nixon, John, -1818, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1796]
- Call Number:
- Drawings N736 no. 4 Box D141
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Ink and wash drawing depicting an ornately costumed actor engaged in a dramatic elocution with one arm extended forwards, palm upturned
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger. and Acronym "J.N" for John Nixon, British artist and printmaker.
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Actor declaiming] [art original]
2. [Kemble] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Sharp, William, 1749-1824, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1803]
- Call Number:
- Portraits K31 no. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait, half-length seated directed slightly to left,looking away, right arm thrown out, left hand at his lapel, the elbow porpped on a table beside a volume labelled 'Shakspeare', wearing a double-breasted coat with a high collar and a frilled white cravat; before letters or border."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from lettered state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: M.A. Shee R.A. pinxt. ; W. Sharp sculpt., First state according to Baker, before letters or border., and For a lettered state with the imprint "London, Published by W. Sharp, April 7, 1803," see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1841,0809.180.
- Publisher:
- W. Sharp
- Subject (Name):
- Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823,
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Kemble] [graphic].
3. [Kemble] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Sharp, William, 1749-1824, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1803]
- Call Number:
- Portraits K31 no. 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait, half-length seated directed slightly to left,looking away, right arm thrown out, left hand at his lapel, the elbow porpped on a table beside a volume labelled 'Shakspeare', wearing a double-breasted coat with a high collar and a frilled white cravat."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
- Description:
- Title from lettered state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: M.A. Shee R.A. pinxt. ; W. Sharp sculpt., Second state according to Baker, before letters but with the border., For a lettered state with the imprint "London, Published by W. Sharp, April 7, 1803," see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1841,0809.180., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- W. Sharp
- Subject (Name):
- Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823,
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Kemble] [graphic].
4. [Man and woman] [art original].
- Creator:
- Fäsch, Johann Ludwig Wernhard, approximately 1738-1778, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1778]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of a man and woman, standing across from one another and apparently engaged in conversation. The man, standing on the left and facing right, gestures toward the woman with his left hand; he wears a blue jacket and breeches, has a holstered sword on his left hip, and holds a tricorne in his right hand. The woman, standing on the right and facing left, wears a purple and green dress and holds a fan(?) in her right hand. Possibly a depiction of a scene from a play
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Artist attribution from manuscript note on paper label mounted below the set of drawings: Drawn by Fesch., Place of production based on artist's main city of activity; date of production based on artist's death date., One of four small drawings of English and French comedians mounted together on one page. Horace Walpole presumably kept similar drawings by Fäsch in his bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 113 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Theatrical productions, Actors, and Actresses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Man and woman] [art original].
5. [Man in blue] [art original].
- Creator:
- Fäsch, Johann Ludwig Wernhard, approximately 1738-1778, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1778]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of a man, standing and turned towards the left. He wears a long white coat, open and unbuttoned, his blue waistcoat and breeches visible beneath. In his outstretched right hand is a tricorne; in his left hand, pulled in close to the hip, is a walking stick. Possibly a depiction of an actor in performance
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Artist attribution from manuscript note on paper label mounted below the set of drawings: Drawn by Fesch., Place of production based on artist's main city of activity; date of production based on artist's death date., One of four small drawings of English and French comedians mounted together on one page. Horace Walpole presumably kept similar drawings by Fäsch in his bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 113 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Theatrical productions and Actors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Man in blue] [art original].
