print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- T,7.54
- Title
- Object: Mr Rae
- Description
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Portrait of the actor Alexander Rae, in private dress; half length, to the right, eyes looking to the left; in oval; after De Wilde; illustration to Gilliland's 'Dramatic Mirror'; proof before all letters. 1807
Stipple on chine collé
- Production date
- 1807
- Dimensions
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Height: 196 millimetres
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Width: 127 millimetres (platemark)
- Curator's comments
- One of a series of oval portraits of actors, all of which seem to be illustrations to 'The Dramatic Mirror' by Thomas Gilliland (London, C.Chapple, 1808). See T.7,53 to 63. For a lettered state see Y,6.269.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Dramatic Mirror
- Acquisition date
- 1808-1820 (circa)
- Acquisition notes
- Although unrecorded in the 'Book of Donations', T,7.53 to 63 all seem to have been given by Cheesman, who is recorded as having made a gift of his work in 1812.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- T,7.54