Drawings: G0050

Title

William Barrymore

Technique

Other work on paper

Subject

Barrymore, William

Character

Hubert : King John

Artist

De Wilde, Samuel

Date

1803

Dimensions

Height: 19.2cm
Width: 17.8cm

Other materials

Black chalk and watercolour

Inscription/signature

"De Wilde / Sunday / N 20th / 1803" (black chalk b. l.); "Mr Barrymore" (pen and brown ink on mount b. c. CM)

Provenance

Charles Mathews

Other number

Mathews 296 (no part)
RW/CKA 564 (no part)

Exhibition history

1833 London, Queen's Bazaar, Oxford Street, "Mr Mathews's Gallery of Theatrical Portraits" (296)

Engraving history

James Parker after Edward Burney for the Manley Wood edition of Shakespeare printed for George Kearsley 31 March 1804, line 8.1x7.7 (f.l. scene with Prince Arthur)

De Wilde's drawing of Barrymore's head, with his hand to his chin, is clearly a sketch prepared for Burney; Barrymore's name is printed over the top of the illustration. Most of the illustrations in the Manley Wood edition are of imaginary subjects.