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Prints: P1319
Title
Mr. King as Brass
Technique
Engraving
Subject
Character
Brass : The Confederacy
Artist
De Wilde, Samuel [ Copy after ]
Audinet, PhilipCooke, Charles
Audinet, PhilipCooke, Charles
Date
1806
Dimensions
Height (mount): 22.6cm
width (mount): 14.4cm
height: 13.2cm
width: 8.2cm
width (mount): 14.4cm
height: 13.2cm
width: 8.2cm
Inscription/signature
"CONFEDERACY / Printed for C. Cooke. / Octr. 18 1806 / Mr. KING as Brass / Now for Flippanta. / Act I. Scene 1."
Provenance
Presented by Mr Michael Gaunt, March 2023.
Other number
E0136
This print depicts Thomas King as Brass in Act 1, Scene 1 of John Vanbrugh's 1705 Restoration comedy 'The Confederacy'. King is shown wearing typical attire of the eighteenth-century with a long jacket, white waistcoat, shirt, cravat, breeches and buckled shoes with a Napoleonic hat and walking stick in his right hand. The engraving is by Philip Audinet, after a painting by Samuel de Wilde and printed for Charles Cooke, 1806.
