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Title
Mr Quick as Vellum
Subject
Artist
Thornthwaite, JosephDe Wilde, SamuelBell, John
Date
1792
Dimensions
height (mount): 22.5cm
width (mount): 16cm
height: 13.5cm
width: 7.9cm
width (mount): 16cm
height: 13.5cm
width: 7.9cm
Other materials
Stipple engraving
Inscription/signature
"Act III. / THE DRUMMER. / Scene II."
"Mr. QUICK as VELLUM. / "Mrs Abigail_I have a Triffle about me / which I would make you a present of / London. Printed for J.Bell British Library, Strand, Decr. 3 1792."
"De Wilde pinxt. / Thornthwaite sculp."
Provenance
Presented by Mr Michael Gaunt, March 2023.
Other number
E0136
Print of John Quick as Vellum in Act III, Scene II of Joseph Addison’s 1716 play, 'The Drummer'. Quick was among the most acclaimed comic actors of his generation.
Quick is depicted wearing an 18th century style suit and coat, with buckled black shoes and a grey haired wig. He is in a sparse interior; he sits on a chair next to a simple wooden table with a bell on a red tablecloth, his hands are clasped and he glances to his left. The scene is in an oval frame, surrounded by black and white bricks.
Engraved by Joseph Thornthwaite after a painting by Samuel de Wilde. Published for John Bell, British Library, 3 December 1792.
Quick is depicted wearing an 18th century style suit and coat, with buckled black shoes and a grey haired wig. He is in a sparse interior; he sits on a chair next to a simple wooden table with a bell on a red tablecloth, his hands are clasped and he glances to his left. The scene is in an oval frame, surrounded by black and white bricks.
Engraved by Joseph Thornthwaite after a painting by Samuel de Wilde. Published for John Bell, British Library, 3 December 1792.
