album; print; frontispiece

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album; print; frontispiece

Object Type: album; print; frontispiece
Museum number: 1866,0512.2542
Title: Object: Mrs. Robinson in the character of Amanda
Description: Frontispiece to Bell's British Theatre; portrait of the actress in the character from Cibber's 'Love's Last Shift'; whole-length, standing directed to front with head in profile to left, right arm in front of body, holding closed fan, left hand to side of her skirts; wearing panniered dress with overskirt and broad decorative trim, ribbon at neck descending to cameo or brooch at bosom, hair worn high and dressed with scarf and feathers. 1777 Engraving and etching with some stipple
Producer name: Print made by: John Thornthwaite; After: James Roberts II; Published by: John Bell, the publisher
School/style
Production date: 1777
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; stipple
Dimensions: Height: 330 millimetres (album sheet); Width: 260 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See K,63.212 for another impression. See 1866,0512.2109-2110 for comment on the album. Cataloguing supported by the Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust
Bibliographic references: Burnim & Highfill 1998 / John Bell, patron of British theatrical portraiture: a catalog of the theatrical portraits in his editions of Bell's Shakespeare and Bell's British Theatre (293); O'Donoghue 1908-25 / Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (17)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Portrait of: Mary Robinson; Illustration to: Colley Cibber
Associated titles: Associated Title: Bell's British Theatre; Associated Title: Love's Last Shift
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1866
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1866,0512.2542

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