- Creator:
- Parker, James, 1750-1805, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [4 June 1800]
- Call Number:
- Drawer 724 803B no. 60
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Sarah Siddons as Lady Macbeth standing in a flagged hall in front of an archway, a view of mountains beyond, looking up resolutely to left, stepping forward and extending her right arm with clenched fist, her other hand at her breast, holding a paper"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., "Shakspeare"--At head of title., Lettered below the image with the title, reference, quotation over eight lines: "Lady M. - Come to my woman's breasts ... To cry, Hold, hold!', and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pub. June 4, 1800 by J. & J. Boydell, Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall & No. 90, Cheapside, London
- Subject (Name):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Gruoch, Queen, consort of Macbeth, King of Scotland, and Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
- Subject (Topic):
- Characters, Lady Macbeth, In literature, Performances, and Actors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Macbeth. Act I. Scene V Macbeth's castle. Lady Macbeth / [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Ravenet, Simon François, 1706-1774, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 1765.
- Call Number:
- Drawer 765.00.00.91
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Looking from the outside into the interior of Capulet's tomb, the viewer sees Juliet's despair as she hears the news of Romeo's death from Friar Lawrence. Outside on the right, Romeo lies dead on the ground
- Description:
- Title from item. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Published according to act of Parlit. by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
- Subject (Name):
- Bellamy, George Anne, 1731?-1788, Garrick, David, 1717-1779,, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Subject (Topic):
- Performances, Illustrations, Actors, British, Theatrical productions, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mr. Garrick and Miss Bellamy in the characters of Romeo and Juliet [graphic]
- 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].