print
- Museum number
- K,58.124
- Title
- Object: Miss Catley in the character of Leonora in the Padlock.
- Description
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Portrait of Ann Catley playing the character from Dibdin's opera; standing directed three-quarters and looking to right, a small bird on her right hand in front of her, which she shields with her raised left hand; wearing panniered dress with slashed skirt, divided peplum and ruffled neckline, necklace, drop earrings and hair worn high; a birdcage with open door hanging from a bough at left; ornamental frame festooned with garlands and at top a bow, quiver and padlock.
Etching with some stipple
- Production date
- 1770-1789 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 177 millimetres (cropped)
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Width: 107 millimetres (cropped)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Miss Catley appeared in this role at Covent Garden Theatre in October 1770 (Highfill, Burnim and Langhans, 'A biographical dictionary of actors, actressses, musicians... and other stage personnel in London, 1660-1800', vol. 3 (1975)).
See also K,58.126, another print of the same subject.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Padlock
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- K,58.124
