print; illustrated book

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Object Type: print; illustrated book
Museum number: 1983,U.240.1-16
Title: Object: Scanderbeg: Or, Love and Liberty
Description: "Scanderbeg: Or, Love and Liberty. A Tragedy. Written by the late Thomas Whincop, Esq. To which are added a List of all the Dramatic Authors, with some Account of their Lives; and of all the Dramatic Pieces ever pubilshed in the English language, to the Year 1747" (London, W. Reeve) 1747; containing 16 small portraits of English dramatic poets and playwrights, bust-length in roundels, printed throughout the letterpress list. Bound with letterpress titlepage and Whincop's play embellished with woodcut vignettes and decorative initial letters. Etchings, possibly with some engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Nathaniel Parr; Published by: William Reeve
School/style
Production date: 1747
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; letterpress; woodcut (vignettes)
Dimensions: Height: 205 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page); Height: 50 millimetres (approx. size of each portrait); Width: 120 millimetres; Width: 40 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Location: Not on display
Subjects: theatre/theatrical life; author/poet
Associated names: Portrait of: Francis Beaumont; Portrait of: Ben Johnson; Portrait of: John Milton; Portrait of: William Shakespeare; Portrait of: Joseph Addison; Portrait of: Thomas Betteron; Portrait of: Colley Cibber; Portrait of: William Congreve; Portrait of: John Dryden; Portrait of: David Garrick; Portrait of: George Granville, Baron Lansdowne; Portrait of: John Mottley; Portrait of: Thomas Otway; Portrait of: Sir Richard Steele; Portrait of: Sir John Vanbrugh; Portrait of: William Wycherley; Associated with: Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset (dedicatee)
Associated titles
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1753-1983
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1983,U.240.1-16

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