print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- K,66.181
- Title
- Object: Mrs Yates in the character of Lady Macbeth
- Description
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Portrait of the actress Mary Ann Yates, in character in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'; whole length, to the front, looking to the left; holding up both daggers to the right; wearing wide panniered dress; illustration to Sayer and Smith's 'Dramatic characters, or different portraits of the English stage' (1769-1773). 1769
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1769
- Dimensions
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Height: 93 millimetres
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Width: 77 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Smith and Sayer's 'Dramatic Characters' were originally issued as a series, the first set in 1769, followed by a further fifteen plates between 1770 and 1773. The portraits were collected and published as the book 'Dramatic Characters; or, Different Portraits of the English Stage' by Sayer and Smith in the mid 1770s, and appears in the Sayer and Bennett catalogue for 1775. The entry to the catalogue helpfully states that the portraits were 'mostly from original drawings of De Fish, and beautifully engraved by Charles Grignion'. Some of the portraits are also taken from Zoffany's compositions.
The book was later reissued by Laurie & Whittle. Numbers were added at some stage after the first publication of the portraits as a series.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Macbeth
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Associated Title: Dramatic characters, or different portraits of the English stage
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- K,66.181