drawing
- Museum number
- 1910,0218.56
- Description
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Portrait of William Pinkethman, actor, as 'Don Lewis' in Colley Cibber's 'Love makes a man, or the Fop's fortune'; three-quarter length, standing to front, his right hand resting on a stick, his left hand on hip, wearing 'Spanish dress', including three-cornered hat with feathers, ruff, slashed doublet, short cloak, sword and dagger
Red chalk, with pen and grey ink, over black chalk, indented for transfer
- Production date
- 1684-1756
- Dimensions
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Height: 296 millimetres
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Width: 224 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- There is a version of this drawing in the Royal Collection. Cibber's play was first produced at Drury Lane in 1701. The inscription on the drawing refers to the name by which the the elderly and choleric Don Lewis is presented by his disrespectful nephew Clodio to Elvira in Act V, Scene 3. Pinkethman is wearing the curious bastard XVIc dress affected by actors of the period when appearing in plays with Spanish or Italian subjects, a tradition that lasted into the early XIXc.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1949 Jul-Sep, Port Sunlight, Lady Lever AG, 'Art and the theatre', no.233
1955 BM, [Theatre exhibition], no.15
1974 July-Dec, BM, Portrait Drawings, no.260
- Acquisition date
- 1910
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1910,0218.56
