print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- Ee,3.81.+
- Title
- Object: Mr. Garrick in the Character of a Drunken Sailor
- Description
-
Garrick dressed as a dishevelled, drunken sailor, stepping forward to left, holding up a broadside in one hand, with a staff in the other, speaking his prologue to Mallet's 'Britannia; a Masque'; in an oval frame surrounded with ribbon, foliage, drum and weapons, with allegories of the tragic and the comic muse at the base; illustration to 'New English Theatre'. 1778
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1750-1785
- Dimensions
-
Height: 176 millimetres
-
Width: 100 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
-
Associated Title: Britannia; a Masque
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Associated Title: New English Theatre
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Acquisition notes
- This is not listed in the 1837 inventory, and is a duplicate of Ee,2.253.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Ee,3.81.+