print
- Museum number
- Ee,3.227
- Title
- Object: Immortality of Garrick
- Description
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David Garrick, on the left, is lifted from his tomb by two angels, and flown towards the summit of the mount in background, to meet Apollo and the muses; the tomb is supported by the figures of Lyric Poetry and the Belles Lettres, a relief on the front shows Nature weeping over a medallion of Garrick; to the right of the tomb are a group of seventeen theatrical persons, drressed in their favourite Shakespearian characters; descending the mount towards Garrick are Thalia, Melpomene and Shakespeare; after Carter. 1783
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1783
- Dimensions
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Height: 486 millimetres
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Width: 620 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See the advertisment for this print - Ee,3.228.
The painting is owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company (from Martin Hopkinson, via email, December 2017).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Ee,3.227