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Paintings: G0247
Title
David Garrick
Technique
Oil on canvas
Subject
Character
Tancred : Tancred and Sigismunda
Artist
Dimensions
Height: 221cm
Width: 147cm
height (frame): 241cm
width (frame): 164cm
Width: 147cm
height (frame): 241cm
width (frame): 164cm
Provenance
Wynne Morgan 1920; F.J. Nettlefold, by whom presented to the Garrick Club, 1940
Other number
Gift 589
Exhibition history
2002 Bath, The Holbourne Museum of Art "Pickpocketing the Rich: Portrait Painting in 18th Century Bath" (no. 5)
Related works
Priv. Coll. London oil on canvas 101.1 x 72.5; Theatre Museum London (TM7) oil on canvas 62.9 x 52 (half-length); see G0238 and G0248.
Engraving history
Thomas Worlidge, printed for E. Jackson 1752, etching 29.7 x 19.3
Thomas Worlidge sold by T. Worlidge, etching 14.65 x 11.4 (half length), 2nd state with added hatching on belt and elsewhere on wove paper watermarked "1794" under Fleur de Lys
Thomas Worlidge, etching 14.8 x 11.35 (h. l.) Inscr: "3" t. l. in border and "79" t. r out of border. (This size without the inscr. is called by HTC a reprint of 1850)
Anon. printed for John Bowles, etching 15.2 x 11.2 (Inscr: "Etched in the manner of Rembrandt")
Literature
C. Reginald Grundy “Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings in the Collection of Frederick John Nettlefold” 4: 184.
There is only one outdoor scene in "Tancred and Sigismunda", Act IV, scene 1, which is set in the garden of Siffredi's house. Tancred is never on stage on his own in this scene. He is shown standing full-length, holding a spear in his right hand, and wearing yellow shoes laced in silver, long pink trousers with gold braid, a pink tunic, a dark blue silver-edged belt, silver braid around shoulders and neck, around wrists and up sleeves to elbows, a blue band at neck with little white collar, a dark blue cloak over left shoulder, lined and trimmed in fur, and a large dark fur hat. The costume is a type often used as masquerade dress in the mid-18th century.
James Thomson's play was first performed at Drury Lane on 18 March 1745, with Garrick as Tancred. Worlidge evidently was depicting Garrick in one of the five performances given in the spring of 1752.
James Thomson's play was first performed at Drury Lane on 18 March 1745, with Garrick as Tancred. Worlidge evidently was depicting Garrick in one of the five performances given in the spring of 1752.
