- Title:
Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy (David Garrick)
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 13 7/8 × 15 15/16 inches (35.2 × 40.5 cm), Image: 13 × 15 7/8 inches (33 × 40.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "Vol.3 P.139"
Lettered, lower left: "J. Reynolds pinxt."; lettered, lower center: "Strive not TRAGEDY nor COMMEDY to Engross a GARRICK, who to your NOBLEST CHARACTERS does EQUAL HONOUR. | Reddere Personae scit convenientia cuique."; lettered, lower left: "printed for Robts. Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street, and"; lettered, lower right: "Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church yard London, Price 6 s."; lettered, lower right: "Chas Corbutt fecit."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.9950
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- portrait
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:25612
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Richard Purcell, active 1746–1766, Irish, Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy (David Garrick), undated
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