print;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- K,57.45
- Title
- Object: Mrs. Abington as the Comic Muse.
- Description
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Portrait of the actress as Thalia, half-length, in classical dress with long billowing scarf, head directed and looking to left, where she is about to crown a bust of Shakespeare, on a pedestal, with laurel, a comic mask held up in her left hand; behind to left, a tree, pipes tied to a branch; oval frame.
Engraving and etching with some stipple
- Production date
- 1783-1817 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 110 millimetres
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Width: 156 millimetres (cropped)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The design is excerpted and reversed from the stipple by Bartolozzi after Cosway (Daniell 1, K,57.46).
See K,57.44, an impression with the title of the periodical Court, City & Country Magazine.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Court, City & Country Magazine
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- K,57.45
