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John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811, Irish, David Garrick, Esq, 1779
- Title:
David Garrick, Esq.
- Date:
- 1779
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 19 15/16 x 14 1/8 inches (50.6 x 35.9 cm), Plate: 15 9/16 x 10 15/16 inches (39.5 x 27.8 cm), Image: 14 3/16 x 10 15/16 inches (36.1 x 27.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower left: "32800 (circled)"
Lettered, lower left: "Tho,,s Hudson pinx,,t"; lower center: "David Garrick Esq,,r | London, Publish'd as the Act directs 11th Octr 1779 by Robert Wilkinson at No 58 in Cornhill"; lower right: "J. Dixon fecit"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mary E. Knapp
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.9
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- actor | book | buttons | cuffs | embroidery | gaze | jacket | portrait | posing | sitting | solemn | theater | wig
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9293
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