Ceramics: M0129

Title

David Garrick

Technique

Tile

Subject

Garrick, David

Character

Sir John Brute : Provoked Wife

Artist

Roberts, James [ Copy after ]

Dimensions

Height: 12.5cm
Width: 12.5cm

Other materials

Sadler & Green Liverpool Delft-ware; framed (54x16.4) in a group of four

Inscription/signature

"MR GARRICK" (title above); "in the Character of SR JOHN BRUTE" (caption below)

Provenance

Bequeathed to the Garrick Club by Bertram Bloch of New York, 1994

Other number

Gift 960 [Tiles (8) printed with theatrical figures]

Related works

M0129 - M0136

Literature

The source print is not illustrated in Kalman A Burmin and Philip H Highfill Jr. "John Bell, Patron of British Theatrical Portraits in His Editions of Bell's Shakespeare and Bell's British Theatre." Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville, 1998

One of a collection of eight delft-ware tiles printed with theatrical figures. The designs are reversed copies of the prints made for "Bell's British Theatre" with a decorative border added and the titles modified.