David Garrick leaning on a bust of Shakespeare [graphic] / after Thomas Gainsborough.
1769
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Title
David Garrick leaning on a bust of Shakespeare [graphic] / after Thomas Gainsborough.
Created/published
After 1769.
Description
1 painting : oil on canvas ; 45 x 29 15/16 in. (114.3 x 76 cm) + frame ca. 51.5 x 36.5 in.
Associated name
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788, artist.
Material base
canvas
Note
Other copies: Sotheby, 2 May 1962, lot 152, bought by Rich, £60 (48 1/2 x 35 in.); head and shoulders only, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (3x 2 1/2 in.). Anglesea also records what is said to be a finished sketch by Gainsborough in the collection of G.B. Fisher (24 x 16 in.)
Original painting: 1766-69, 92 1/2 x 60 in., hung in Town Hall, Stratford-upon-Avon, and destroyed by fire in 1946.
Engraving after original: Mezzotint by Valentine Green, published 2 April 1769 by John Boydell, 23 7/8 x 15 1/8 in.
Title from Pressly.
Original painting: 1766-69, 92 1/2 x 60 in., hung in Town Hall, Stratford-upon-Avon, and destroyed by fire in 1946.
Engraving after original: Mezzotint by Valentine Green, published 2 April 1769 by John Boydell, 23 7/8 x 15 1/8 in.
Title from Pressly.
Publications about material
Fink 1959, p. 63 (lists two paintings of Garrick by or after Gainsborough, but both entries refer to this one painting); Anglesea 1971, p. 172, as by Hoppner; Burnim 1984, p. 211, as by Hoppner.
Provenance
Provenance: Michelmore catalogue, "Shakespeareana Illustrated, [1923?], no. 42, as by John Hoppner after Gainsborough, repr. in color, £400 asking price.
Source of acquisition
Bought by Folger shortly before 20 September 1926, $1,000.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Federal Reserve Board, "Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century English Painting," 1976-1977, no. 12, as by Hoppner.
Washington, DC, Folger Shakespeare Library, May 2017- February 2018. Painting Shakespeare.
Washington, DC, Folger Shakespeare Library, May 2017- February 2018. Painting Shakespeare.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 109
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPb27
Genre/form
Portrait paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPb27 (rack 101-B2)
Folger-specific note
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Folger accession
cs1565