David Garrick as Richard III [graphic] / after Nathaniel Dance.
1772
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPb18
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Title
David Garrick as Richard III [graphic] / after Nathaniel Dance.
Created/published
After 1772.
Description
1 painting : oil on canvas ; 49 1/2 x 32 7/8 in. (125 x 85 cm)
Associated name
Meagher, former owner.
Walters, former owner.
Walters, former owner.
Material base
canvas
Note
Original painting: Royal Academy, 1771, oil on canvas, 93 x 59 in., Stratford-upon-Avon Town Council. Other copies of the original can be found at the Central Museum and Art Gallery, Northampton; by H. R. Morland, the Garrick Club, London (34 1/4 x 23 in.); Hurst House, Carmarthenshire (36 x 24 in.); W. Somerset Maugham Collection, National Theatre, London (25 1/4 x 16 1/2 in.); and the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. E. Hal Dickson, Mr. and Mrs. James R. Duncan, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Rose, San Angelo Tex.
Engravings after original: J. Dixon, 28 April 1772, published by John Boydell, 25 x 15 9/16 in. There are also several engravings made in the nineteenth century.
Title from Pressly.
Engravings after original: J. Dixon, 28 April 1772, published by John Boydell, 25 x 15 9/16 in. There are also several engravings made in the nineteenth century.
Title from Pressly.
Publications about material
Anglesea 1971, p. 163; London, The Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood, "Nathaniel Dance, 1735-1811," 1977, no. 29; Burnim 1984, p. 189 (repr.), as a smaller version presumably by Dance.
Provenance
Provenance: Brought from England to America by an unnamed owner in 1924 (see Walters's letter to Folger, 19 March 1926); acquired by Meagher and sold to Walters (see Meagher's letter to Folger, 8 May 1926, in Barker file)
Source of acquisition
Bought from Walters, April 1926, $350 (an impression of the mezzotint after the original was included in the price)
Exhibited
Exhibited: Washington, D.C., Federal Reserve Board, "Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century English Painting," 1976-1977, no. 2, as by Dance.
Copy 2. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2005. David Garrick.
Copy 2. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2005. David Garrick.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 107
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPb18
Genre/form
Portrait paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPb18 (near copiers)
Folger-specific note
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Folger accession
cs1507