Mr. Brook [sic] as Iago [graphic] / [Issac Robert Cruikshank, probable artist].
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Title
Mr. Brook [sic] as Iago [graphic] / [Issac Robert Cruikshank, probable artist].
Created/published
[mid 19th cent.]
Description
1 drawings : watercolor over pencil indications ; 9 3/4 x 8 1/8 in.
Associated name
Material base
paper
Note
Artist: Signature varies from existing examples of Cruikshank's monogram found in Nahum 'Mongograms of Victorian...artists' and Nagler 'Die Monogramisten', however, there seem to be many variants in Cruikshank's signature and since a brush was used on this occasion the variation may be caused by the difference in medium. Cruikshank executed numerous theatrical portraits which were etched and issued, plain and colored, by theatrical publishers.
History: Though bookseller described the drawing as a costume sketch Cruikshank was not known to have designed costume (though he did paint scenery at the Adelphi in the 1820s) and drawing was most likely intended to be etched as a theatrical portrait. There is, however, no listing of a similar portrait in Harv. Cat. of Dram Ports.
On very thin woven paper unevenly torn or cut in upper right corner. Title from pencil note at base of sketch. Full figure portrait, standing to left, right arm outstretched, holding handkerchief, town scene in background (red chalk artist's change at left arm). On verso in pencil: 1m/- Signed, lower right with brush Rt Ck.
Provenance: Drawing was purchased as the 50th anniversary gift to the Library from the Honorable and Mrs. Edward H. Foley. The drawing was bought from Justin G. Schiller, Ltd. of N.Y. Purchased with a similar drawing of Brooke as Hamlet, originally matted together. (acc. 220613).
Subject: Portrait pictures Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (1818-1866) in the role of Iago from Shakespeare's Othello. The costume in which Brooke is pictured bears resemblance to the costume he is pictured wearing in an engraving in the role, engraved by T. Sherrat from a daguerreotype by Fitzgibbon (see ART File B872 no.5) though there are some variations. W.J. Lawrence's biography of Brooke (1892) notes him as first playing Iago in Sheffield in 1837, and playing the part for the first time in London in 1853.
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History: Though bookseller described the drawing as a costume sketch Cruikshank was not known to have designed costume (though he did paint scenery at the Adelphi in the 1820s) and drawing was most likely intended to be etched as a theatrical portrait. There is, however, no listing of a similar portrait in Harv. Cat. of Dram Ports.
On very thin woven paper unevenly torn or cut in upper right corner. Title from pencil note at base of sketch. Full figure portrait, standing to left, right arm outstretched, holding handkerchief, town scene in background (red chalk artist's change at left arm). On verso in pencil: 1m/- Signed, lower right with brush Rt Ck.
Provenance: Drawing was purchased as the 50th anniversary gift to the Library from the Honorable and Mrs. Edward H. Foley. The drawing was bought from Justin G. Schiller, Ltd. of N.Y. Purchased with a similar drawing of Brooke as Hamlet, originally matted together. (acc. 220613).
Subject: Portrait pictures Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (1818-1866) in the role of Iago from Shakespeare's Othello. The costume in which Brooke is pictured bears resemblance to the costume he is pictured wearing in an engraving in the role, engraved by T. Sherrat from a daguerreotype by Fitzgibbon (see ART File B872 no.5) though there are some variations. W.J. Lawrence's biography of Brooke (1892) notes him as first playing Iago in Sheffield in 1837, and playing the part for the first time in London in 1853.
This record contains unverified data from old cards and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance.
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Genre/form
Call number
ART Box C955.2 no.2 (size S)