Robert Armin [graphic] / [Silvester Harding].
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Title
Robert Armin [graphic] / [Silvester Harding].
Created/published
[late 18th cent.]
Description
1 item in 1 vol. : watercolor.
Associated name
Material base
paper
Note
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Full length portrait to left, head tilted to right, hands on hips, wearing a hat and a long coat. Title from an engraving which contains the same portrait. Pencil note underneath drawing identifies the subject as Alexander Cooke. Unsigned.
Artist: Drawing is similar to a portrait Harding engraved as part of a facsimile title page used as a plate to Shakespeare illustrated (see below). A pencil note on the flyleaf of the volume credits Harding as artist of some of the original drawings inside.
History: Harding engraved a facsimile of the title page to Armin's History of the two maids of More-Clacke for his Shakespeare illustrated, 1793. In the center of the title page is a woodcut of a man who has usually been identified as Armin. Harv. cat. lists the woodcut as no.1 under its entry for Robert Armin. The original title page was printed in 1609, the facsimile in 1790. The watercolor portrait appears to be of the same man who is found on the title page, though the watercolor varies slightly, depicting a much thinner man. FSL has a copy of the facsimile engraving (ART Vol. e32 no.24 and Art File A729 no.1).
Subject: Robert Armin was an author and actor during the time of Shakespeare. He is noted in the list of actors found in the Shakespeare first folio, as is the actor Alexander Cooke, whose name is written in pencil underneath the watercolor portrait, probably by the grangerizer.
Provenance: Item has been inlaid before p.cxlv in the 1st volume of a 21 volume extra illustrated copy of the 1857 edition of Shakespeare's works, edited by Dyce and formerly owned by Robert Hoe. For complete provenance information see record for Harding, Silvester. Dr. Farmer.
Published work: Harding, Silvester. Shakespeare illustrated ... London: S&E Harding, 1793.
Full length portrait to left, head tilted to right, hands on hips, wearing a hat and a long coat. Title from an engraving which contains the same portrait. Pencil note underneath drawing identifies the subject as Alexander Cooke. Unsigned.
Artist: Drawing is similar to a portrait Harding engraved as part of a facsimile title page used as a plate to Shakespeare illustrated (see below). A pencil note on the flyleaf of the volume credits Harding as artist of some of the original drawings inside.
History: Harding engraved a facsimile of the title page to Armin's History of the two maids of More-Clacke for his Shakespeare illustrated, 1793. In the center of the title page is a woodcut of a man who has usually been identified as Armin. Harv. cat. lists the woodcut as no.1 under its entry for Robert Armin. The original title page was printed in 1609, the facsimile in 1790. The watercolor portrait appears to be of the same man who is found on the title page, though the watercolor varies slightly, depicting a much thinner man. FSL has a copy of the facsimile engraving (ART Vol. e32 no.24 and Art File A729 no.1).
Subject: Robert Armin was an author and actor during the time of Shakespeare. He is noted in the list of actors found in the Shakespeare first folio, as is the actor Alexander Cooke, whose name is written in pencil underneath the watercolor portrait, probably by the grangerizer.
Provenance: Item has been inlaid before p.cxlv in the 1st volume of a 21 volume extra illustrated copy of the 1857 edition of Shakespeare's works, edited by Dyce and formerly owned by Robert Hoe. For complete provenance information see record for Harding, Silvester. Dr. Farmer.
Published work: Harding, Silvester. Shakespeare illustrated ... London: S&E Harding, 1793.
Genre/form
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
ART Vol. a34 (vol.1, after p.cxliv)