Garrick dans le role de Richard III [graphic] : tragedie de Shakespear, act 5, sce 7 / Hogarth pinxit ; A. Romanet sculp.

Published/Created:

[Basle?]
[publisher not identified]
[not after 1807]

Physical Description:

1 print : steel engraving on wove paper ; sheet 230 x 150 mm

Notes:

Title engraved in tablet within image.
Printmaker active in Basle.
After the painting in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. See O'Connell, S. London 1753 (2004), pages 135-6.
For a discussion of the original print see: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 165.
Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.

Abstract:

Portrait of David Garrick in the role of Richard III, bust only, taken from Hogarth's painting of him awakening from his troubled dream in the tent before the battle of Bosworth Field; in oval in rectangular brick frame with tablet below.

Variant Titles:

Garrick in the character of Richard III.

Associated Names:

Romanet, Antoine Louis, 1748-1807 [Printmaker]
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Artist]

Topics:

Actors -- British
Garrick, David, 1717-1779
Portrayals
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Language:

French

Genre:

Engravings -- England -- London -- 1746
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1746
Portrait prints

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

Hogarth 807.00.00.01 Box 140

Orbis Record:

11336506

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22713

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16034968

PID:

digcoll:2810905