print
- Museum number
- 1865,1111.2669
- Title
- Object: Principal Characters in the New Comic Pantomime Called Harlequin and Fancy
- Description
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Studies of the principal characters in Dibdin's "Harlequin and Fancy", consisting of Whim, in a fanciful tunic with ruffed collar and bearing a staff, the tip shaped as Mr. Punch; a dancer with castanets; Apollo in a chiton, crowned with laurel and holding a lyre; the Clown (as portrayed by Joseph Grimaldi) as Game Cock, with clown face, a ruff of feathers, a tail and 'spurs' attached to his boots; the Waterloo Orphan, in a dress and short jacket, wielding a sword; and the Waterloo soldier, in the uniform of a soldier of a foot regiment in greatcloak
Etching
- Production date
- 1816 (February 7th)
- Dimensions
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Height: 292 millimetres
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Width: 203 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Battle of Waterloo 1815 (18th June)
- Acquisition date
- 1865
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1865,1111.2669
