Richard Tarlton [graphic] / [Silvester Harding].
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Title
Richard Tarlton [graphic] / [Silvester Harding].
Created/published
[late 18th cent.]
Description
1 item in 1 vol. : ink, wash and watercolor.
Associated name
Material base
paper
Note
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Full figure portrait to left, standing, looking front, playing pipe and tabor. Title from engraving after drawing. Pencil note under portrait mistakenly identifies the subject as William Kempe. Unsigned.
Artist: Drawing is similar to a print by Silvester Harding (see below) and a penciled note on the flyleaf of the volume which houses the item credits Harding as artist of some of the original drawings inside.
History: An engraving of this Tarlton portrait was published in Harding's Biographical mirrour, 1792, with the label reading: Richard Tarlton. From a drawing of the same size in the Pepysian Library of Magdalen College Cambridge. Publ. April 16 1792 ... Harv. cat. of dram. ports. lists the engraving as no.2 under the entry for Tarlton. FSL has an ink wash portrait of the same also attributed to Harding (ART Box H263.5 no.3). FSL copy of the published work is DA 28.9 B5 Cage.
Subject: Tarlton was a comic actor during Shakespeare's time. He is listed as one of the twelve players who formed the company of Queen's players in 1583.
Provenance: Item is inlaid in an extra illustrated copy of the 1857 edition of Shakespeare's works. For information concerning volume and provenance see record for Harding, Silvester. Dr. Farmer.
Published work: Harding, Silvester. Biographical mirrour ... London: S&E Harding, [1792-1795].
Full figure portrait to left, standing, looking front, playing pipe and tabor. Title from engraving after drawing. Pencil note under portrait mistakenly identifies the subject as William Kempe. Unsigned.
Artist: Drawing is similar to a print by Silvester Harding (see below) and a penciled note on the flyleaf of the volume which houses the item credits Harding as artist of some of the original drawings inside.
History: An engraving of this Tarlton portrait was published in Harding's Biographical mirrour, 1792, with the label reading: Richard Tarlton. From a drawing of the same size in the Pepysian Library of Magdalen College Cambridge. Publ. April 16 1792 ... Harv. cat. of dram. ports. lists the engraving as no.2 under the entry for Tarlton. FSL has an ink wash portrait of the same also attributed to Harding (ART Box H263.5 no.3). FSL copy of the published work is DA 28.9 B5 Cage.
Subject: Tarlton was a comic actor during Shakespeare's time. He is listed as one of the twelve players who formed the company of Queen's players in 1583.
Provenance: Item is inlaid in an extra illustrated copy of the 1857 edition of Shakespeare's works. For information concerning volume and provenance see record for Harding, Silvester. Dr. Farmer.
Published work: Harding, Silvester. Biographical mirrour ... London: S&E Harding, [1792-1795].
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
ART Vol. a34 (vol.1, before p.cxlv)