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Garrick dans le role de Richard III tragedie de Shakespear, act 5, sce 7
Title
Garrick dans le role de Richard III [graphic] : tragedie de Shakespear, act 5, sce 7 / Hogarth pinxit ; A. Romanet sculp.
Publication
[Basle?] : [publisher not identified], [not after 1807]
Physical Description
1 print : steel engraving ; sheet 23.0 x 15.0 cm
Medium
wove paper.
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.
Provenance
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.
Summary
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 and related titles
Garrick in the character of Richard III.
Format
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Language
French
Added to Catalog
April 12, 2013
Subjects
Genre/Form
Portrait prints.
Engravings - England - London - 1746.
Etchings - England - London - 1746.
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