Creator Gender: male / Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection / Subject Terms: performance

1. Portrait of Mr. Van Amburgh, As He Appeared with His Animals at the London Theatres

Creator:: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, 1802–1873
Date:: Summer 1846 to March 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 69 1/4 x 94 inches (175.9 x 238.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Stage Design for Heart of Midlothian; Deans' Cottage

Creator:: Alexander Nasmyth, 1758–1840
Date:: ca. 1819
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 x 15 1/4 inches (27.9 x 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Edward Shuter, John Beard, and John Dunstall in Isaac Bickerton's "Love in a Village"

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 51 1/4 x 65 inches (130.2 x 165.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Samuel Thomas Russell in Samuel Foote's "The Mayor of Garratt"

Creator:: Samuel De Wilde, 1748–1832
Date:: between 1810 and 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches (62.2 x 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Rehearsal of an opera

Creator:: Marco Ricci, 1676–1729
Date:: ca. 1709
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/4 × 22 3/4 inches (46.4 × 57.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Rehearsal of an opera

Creator:: Marco Ricci, 1676–1729
Date:: ca. 1709
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 x 22 inches (48.3 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. A Scene from 'The Maid of the Mill'

Creator:: John Inigo Richards, 1730/31?–1810
Date:: 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 5/8 x 25 inches (47.3 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Henry Woodward as Petruchio in Catherine and Petruchio, a version by Garrick of "The Taming of the Shrew"

Creator:: Benjamin van der Gucht, 1753–1794
Date:: between 1773 and 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Susannah Maria Cibber (née Arne) as Cordelia

Creator:: Pieter van Bleeck, 1700–1764
Date:: ca. 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 1/16 x 20 9/16 inches (38.3 x 52.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. David Garrick and Hannah Pritchard (née Vaughan) in Benjamin Hoadly's "The Suspicious Husband"

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:: 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas laid to board
Dimensions:: 28 1/8 x 36 1/8 inches (71.4 x 91.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. Frances Abington (née Barton) as Miss Prue in William Congreve’s “Love for Love”

Creator:: Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 1/4 × 25 1/8 inches (76.8 × 63.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. Captain Macheath Upbraided by Polly and Lucy in the 'Beggar's Opera', 1826

Creator:: Gilbert Stuart Newton, 1794–1835
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 x 47 1/2 inches (96.5 x 120.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. Interior View of Westminster Abbey on the Commemoration of Handel, Taken from the Manager's Box

Creator:: Edward Edwards, 1738–1806
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 3/8 x 40 inches (128 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. Susannah Maria Cibber (née Arne) as Cordelia

Creator:: Pieter van Bleeck, 1700–1764
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 84 x 82 inches (213.4 x 208.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. The Trapeze

Creator:: Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942
Date:: ca. 1920
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/2 x 32 inches (62.2 x 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. Scene in a park, with figures from the Commedia dell'Arte

Creator:: Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772
Date:: ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 1/4 x 34 1/2 inches (92.1 x 87.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. Mrs. Frances Abington (née Barton) as Roxalana in "The Sultan"

Creator:: John Keyse Sherwin, c.1751–1790
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 7 9/16 inches (24.4 × 19.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Mrs. Frances Abington (née Barton)

Creator:: James Wilson, c.1735–c.1786
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on thin, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 15/16 × 4 3/8 inches (15.1 × 11.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. The Cotillion Dance

Creator:: Print made by James Caldwall, 1739–1819
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 × 13 9/16 inches (25.5 × 34.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. A Negroes Dance in the Island of Dominica

Creator:: Print made by Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/16 x 19 7/8 inches (33.8 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Strephon and Chloe

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 x 13 1/16 inches (25.5 x 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. A Negroes Dance in the Island of Dominica

Creator:: Print made by Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 x 15 3/4 inches (33.4 x 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Miss Farren in the Character of Hermione

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 3/8 x 16 1/4 inches (61.9 x 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Punch

Creator:: Print made by Rowney & Forster, active 1820–1822
Date:: after 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 13/16 × 12 9/16 inches (22.4 × 31.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Garrick as Abel Drugger in "The Alchemist"

Creator:: Print finished by John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 12 1/4 inches (42.9 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Mrs. Abington as Thalia

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: ca. 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, with hand colored ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/16 × 7 1/8 inches (23.4 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Mr. Garrick and Miss Bellamy in the Characters of Romeo and Juliet

Creator:: Simon François Ravenet, 1706–1774
Date:: 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 × 21 5/8 inches (42.9 × 55 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. A Raree Show

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: between 1792 and 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 × 6 1/4 inches (19.4 × 15.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Mr. Edwin and Mrs. Wells in the Characters of Lingo and Cowslip

Creator:: Print made by Hugh Downman, d. 1789
Date:: ca. 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper, pasted on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 × 13 1/4 inches (48.2 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Mrs. Abington as 'the Comic Muse'

Creator:: Print made by James Watson, 1740–1790
Date:: ca. 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 1/4 × 18 1/2 inches (66.7 × 47 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Scene from a Play, possibly Benjamin Hoadley's "The Suspicious Husband"

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, red chalk and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 × 6 3/4 inches (13 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Study of a Pianist and Bass Player

Creator:: Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 x 11 1/4 inches (40.3 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Mrs. Abington

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 11 3/4 inches (19.7 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Mrs. Abington

Creator:: James Watson, 1740–1790
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 3/8 × 15 1/16 inches (61.9 × 38.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Mrs. Abington As Thalia

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and line engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches (27.7 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Mrs. Frances Abington (née Barton)

Creator:: James Wilson, c.1735–c.1786
Date:: between 1768 and 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 × 10 5/8 inches (36.8 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Mrs. Frances Abington, (née Barton)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 5 13/16 inches (23.2 × 14.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Mrs. Abington

Creator:: Print made by Elizabeth Judkins, active 1772–1775
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Mrs. Abington as Thalia

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving printed in brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 9/16 × 8 1/4 inches (26.8 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. The Show

Creator:: Print made by Rowney & Forster, active 1820–1822
Date:: after 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 12 1/4 inches (22.3 × 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Vauxhall Gardens

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 1/16 x 20 11/16 inches (38.3 x 52.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. A Man doing the Splits

Creator:: George Dance, 1741–1825
Date:: between 1760 and 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 5 3/4 inches (18.7 × 14.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Dancing Bear with Its Keeper, Piper, and Audience of One

Creator:: James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, rough, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 9/16 x 13 1/16 inches (26.9 x 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Mrs. Frances Abington

Creator:: James Watson, 1740–1790
Date:: ca.1769
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 7/8 × 16 inches (65.7 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Portrait of Mr. Van Amburgh, As He Appeared with His Animals at the London Theatres

2. Stage Design for Heart of Midlothian; Deans' Cottage

3. Edward Shuter, John Beard, and John Dunstall in Isaac Bickerton's "Love in a Village"

4. Samuel Thomas Russell in Samuel Foote's "The Mayor of Garratt"

5. Rehearsal of an opera

6. Rehearsal of an opera

7. A Scene from 'The Maid of the Mill'

8. Henry Woodward as Petruchio in Catherine and Petruchio, a version by Garrick of "The Taming of the Shrew"

9. Susannah Maria Cibber (née Arne) as Cordelia

10. David Garrick and Hannah Pritchard (née Vaughan) in Benjamin Hoadly's "The Suspicious Husband"

11. Frances Abington (née Barton) as Miss Prue in William Congreve’s “Love for Love”

12. Captain Macheath Upbraided by Polly and Lucy in the 'Beggar's Opera', 1826

13. Interior View of Westminster Abbey on the Commemoration of Handel, Taken from the Manager's Box

14. Susannah Maria Cibber (née Arne) as Cordelia

15. The Trapeze

16. Scene in a park, with figures from the Commedia dell'Arte

17. Mrs. Frances Abington (née Barton) as Roxalana in "The Sultan"

18. Mrs. Frances Abington (née Barton)

19. The Cotillion Dance

20. A Negroes Dance in the Island of Dominica

21. Strephon and Chloe

22. A Negroes Dance in the Island of Dominica

23. Miss Farren in the Character of Hermione

24. Punch

25. Garrick as Abel Drugger in "The Alchemist"

26. Mrs. Abington as Thalia

27. Mr. Garrick and Miss Bellamy in the Characters of Romeo and Juliet

28. A Raree Show

29. Mr. Edwin and Mrs. Wells in the Characters of Lingo and Cowslip

30. Mrs. Abington as 'the Comic Muse'

31. Scene from a Play, possibly Benjamin Hoadley's "The Suspicious Husband"

32. Study of a Pianist and Bass Player

33. Mrs. Abington

34. Mrs. Abington

35. Mrs. Abington As Thalia

36. Mrs. Frances Abington (née Barton)

37. Mrs. Frances Abington, (née Barton)

38. Mrs. Abington

39. Mrs. Abington as Thalia

40. The Show

41. Vauxhall Gardens

42. A Man doing the Splits

43. Dancing Bear with Its Keeper, Piper, and Audience of One

44. Mrs. Frances Abington