Prints: P1170

Title

Mr Mathews as Caleb Pipkin in the 'May Queen'

Subject

Mathews, Charles

Artist

Greatbach, William

Date

1839

Dimensions

height: 24cm
width: 14.5cm

Other materials

Stipple engraving

Provenance

Formerly in the collection of Professor Jim Davis, acquired by the Garrick Club in 2024

Other number

E0162

This print depicts Charles Mathews as Caleb Pipkin in the play 'The May Queen' by J. B. Buckstone. It shows mathews full length seated, with his legs slightly crossed. He wears an apron and holds a pan in one hand a possibly a hot iron in the other. At his feet is a small boy holding bellows into a small can with fire in.