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Mr. Kean as Othello

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 In this image, a full-length image of Edmund Kean as Othello constructed from parts of a print or prints while his costume and hat and their trimming are cut from satin cloth with additional decorated paper trimming and small metal buttons. This image is the only one of the four mounted on a secondary sheet, this one ruled as if from a ledger.

  • Title: Mr. Kean as Othello [art original] : Act 5th, Scene 3rd / made by the author.
  • Production: [England], [ca. 1828]

Catalog Record

Drawings C697 no. 1 Box D115

Acquired April 2021

Madame Vestris as Don Giovani

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In this collage a full-length image of a woman, identified as Miss Vestris: her head and neck, arms, and boots have been cut from an unidentifed print or prints while her costume and hat and their trimming are cut from satin cloth with additional decorated paper trimming. On the verso written in red ink, two poems: “The Snow Drop by Henry Neele” and “I Saw Thee Weep, Byron” transcribed in two columns.

  • Title: Madame Vestris as Don Giovani [art original] / H.A.S.
  • Production: [England], [ca. 1828?]

Catalog Record

Drawings C697 no. 3 Box D115

Acquired April 2021

Miss Hargraves as Amy

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This collage shows full-length image of a woman, identified as Miss Hargraves. Her head and neck, arms, and feet have been cut from an unidentifed print or prints while her costume and its trimming are cut from satin cloth. On each side are small images also cut from prints: on the right a house with a second story wrap-around porch and on the right a covered structure ladened with refreshments.
On the back of this collage are mounted three small engravings of women in fashionable dress; with notes in red ink “Presented by Sarah, Apl. 8 1830” written twice in the upper left and right and below also on the right and left “The author returns thanks”. In the same hand the middle print has been annotated “Kemble” which is also engraved in the plate with the author and printmaker statements “R. Cruikshank delt. J. Rogers sc.”

  • Creator: Hume, Sarah, artist.
  • Title: Miss Hargraves as Amy [art original] / made and presented by Miss Hume.
  • Production: [England], [1830]

Catalog Record

Drawings C697 no. 2 Box D115

Acquired April 2021

 

Miss Bartolozzi as the page in The marriage of Figaro

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In this collage a full-length image of a woman, identified as Miss Bartolozzi, with her head and neck, hands, and boots cut from an unidentifed print or prints while her costume and hat and their trimming are cut from satin cloth with additional decorated paper trimming. On the verso in two columns written in red ink and ruled in red ink: On the left the title of a poem only “Lines on my garden”. On the right: Song, “My own Blue Bell”.

  • Creator: Butcher, Master, artist.
  • Title: Miss Bartolozzi as the page in The marriage of Figaro [art original] / made & given by Master Butcher.
  • Production: [England], [ca. 1828]

Catalog Record

Drawings C697 no. 4 Box D115

Acquired April 2021