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- Title:
- Garrick Reading the Ode at the Shakespeare Jubilee
- Additional Title(s):
- An Ode upon Dedicating a Building and Erecting a Statue to Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon, 1769
- Date:
- 1784
- Materials & Techniques:
- Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 24 7/16 x 17 13/16 inches (62 x 45.3 cm), Image: 23 3/8 x 16 7/8 inches (59.3 x 42.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower right: "? ALEXANDER"
Lettered in black ink, lower left: "R. E. Pine pinxt | To Mrs: Montagu, this Plate"; lower center, left side: "Can British gratitude delay, | To him the glory of this Isle;"; lower center: "GARRICK. | To him, the first of Poets! – best of Men! | We ne'er shall look upon his like again!"; lower center, right side: "To give the festive day, | The Song, the Statue, the devoted pile! | See Garrick's Ode to Shakespeare."; lower right: "Caroline Watson Sculpt,, | is most respectfully inscribed. | London. Published March 25th, 1784 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alexander
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1979.32
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- actor | angel | arch | belts | books | breeches | canes | celebration | characters | cloaks | clouds | columns | costume | crowns | curtains | dagger | drapery | dress | flag | gesture | historical subject | horn (musical instrument) | mask | medallion | men | ode | pedestal | pillars | plume | robes | ruff | sashes | scroll (information artifact) | Shakespeare Jubilee, 1769 | shepherd's crook | staffs | statue | stockings | sword | vines | wineskin | witch | women | wreath
- Associated Places:
- England | Europe | Stratford-upon-Avon | United Kingdom | Warwickshire
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Roubiliac, Louis François (1702–1762), sculptor
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright
Montagu (née Robinson), Elizabeth (1718–1800), author and literary hostess - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:44667
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Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Geoffrey Ashton, Shakespeare and British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 39, 90, no. 100, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA) [YCBA]