Prints: P1247

Title

Mr Liston as Moll Flagon

Subject

Liston, John

Artist

Lambert, Edward F [ Copy after ]

Date

c.1826

Dimensions

height: 13cm
width: 8cm

Other materials

Engraving

Provenance

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

Other number

E0162

This print depicts the comedian John Liston as Moll Flaggon, in John Burgoyne's comic opera 'Lord of the Manor'. The print shows Liston full length, wearing a soldier's jacket, a cap on his head, and a skirt with a chquered apron and a large pocket with a bottle poking out. He raises one arm outstretched which contains a clay pipe, the other arm is on his hip. This print is very likely after a drawing by E. F. Lambert, which in other prints is accompanied by the line: "Brandy be my poison! but I like the looks of him. Here, my heart, take a whiff".