print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- Ee,5.210
- Description
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Mr. Cherry as Lazarillo; portrait of the actor as the character from Jephson's 'Two Strings to your Bow'; standing whole-length, turning to left and looking upward with slight smile, holding letters in his left hand at his waist, proferring others with his other hand, wearing open, short-sleeved coat over longer-sleeved garment, both with frogging, ruff, and trousers with boots, hair tousled; open door behind at right, chest on ground at left; plate to Cawthorn's Minor British Theatre; proof before letters.
Etching and stipple
- Production date
- 1806 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 172 millimetres
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Width: 104 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For a lettered (but cropped) impression, see K,58.141.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Two Strings to your Bow
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Associated Title: Minor British Theatre
- Acquisition date
- 1813
- Acquisition notes
- This is might be one of the '13 prints, historical and portraits' recorded in the 'Book of Donations 1756-1823' as given by William Bond on 13 February 1813, but it might equally well be a Burney duplicate.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Ee,5.210
