Period: 18th century / Subject Terms: performance - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

1. Portia and Shylock, from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice", IV, i

Creator:: Edward Alcock, active 1750–ca. 1778
Date:: ca. 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 x 20 inches (66 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

2. The Return of Othello, 'Othello,' Act II, Scene II

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: ca. 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions:: 8 1/4 x 10 inches (21 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

3. David Garrick and George Anne Bellamy in "Romeo and Juliet", Act V, Scene iii

Creator:: Benjamin Wilson, 1721–1788
Date:: 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 54 5/8 x 72 1/2 inches (138.7 x 184.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

4. Mrs. Cibber as Cordelia

Creator:: Pieter van Bleeck, 1700–1764
Date:: ca. 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 1/16 x 20 9/16 inches (38.3 x 52.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Henry Woodward as Petruchio in Catherine and Petruchio, a version by Garrick of "The Taming of the Shrew"

Creator:: Benjamin van der Gucht, 1753–1794
Date:: between 1773 and 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Edward Shuter, John Beard, and John Dunstall in Isaac Bickerton's "Love in a Village"

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 51 1/4 x 65 inches (130.2 x 165.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. Shylock and Tubal from "The Merchant of Venice"

Creator:: Herbert Stoppelaer, active 1730–1775
Date:: 1767 to 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 1/2 x 28 3/4 inches (59.7 x 73 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

8. A Scene from 'The Maid of the Mill'

Creator:: John Inigo Richards, 1730/31?–1810
Date:: 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 5/8 x 25 inches (47.3 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Rehearsal of an opera

Creator:: Marco Ricci, 1676–1729
Date:: ca. 1709
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 x 22 inches (48.3 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. Rehearsal of an opera

Creator:: Marco Ricci, 1676–1729
Date:: ca. 1709
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/4 × 22 3/4 inches (46.4 × 57.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. David Garrick and Mrs. Pritchard in Benjamin Hoadly's "The Suspicious Husband"

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:: 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas laid to board
Dimensions:: 28 1/8 x 36 1/8 inches (71.4 x 91.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. Cordelia Championed by the Earl of Kent, from Shakespeare's "King Lear," I, i

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: between 1770 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 1/8 x 50 1/2 inches (104.5 x 128.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

13. Frances Abington (née Barton) as Miss Prue in William Congreve’s “Love for Love”

Creator:: Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 1/4 × 25 1/8 inches (76.8 × 63.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. Mrs. Cibber as Cordelia

Creator:: Pieter van Bleeck, 1700–1764
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 84 x 82 inches (213.4 x 208.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. Interior View of Westminster Abbey on the Commemoration of Handel, Taken from the Manager's Box

Creator:: Edward Edwards, 1738–1806
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 3/8 x 40 inches (128 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. Scene in a park, with figures from the Commedia dell'Arte

Creator:: Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772
Date:: ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 1/4 x 34 1/2 inches (92.1 x 87.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. Mrs. Abington

Creator:: Print made by Elizabeth Judkins, active 1772–1775
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Garrick as Abel Drugger in "The Alchemist"

Creator:: Print finished by John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 12 1/4 inches (42.9 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Mrs. Abington as Thalia

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: ca. 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, with hand colored ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/16 × 7 1/8 inches (23.4 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Mr. Garrick and Miss Bellamy in the Characters of Romeo and Juliet

Creator:: Simon François Ravenet, 1706–1774
Date:: 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 × 21 5/8 inches (42.9 × 55 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Miss Farren in the Character of Hermione

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 3/8 x 16 1/4 inches (61.9 x 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Mrs. Abington As Thalia

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and line engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches (27.7 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Mrs. Abington

Creator:: James Watson, 1740–1790
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 3/8 × 15 1/16 inches (61.9 × 38.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. A Choral Band

Creator:: Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784
Date:: ca. 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 9/16 x 16 3/4 inches (29.4 x 42.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. A Raree Show

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: between 1792 and 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 × 6 1/4 inches (19.4 × 15.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Mrs. Abington as 'the Comic Muse'

Creator:: Print made by James Watson, 1740–1790
Date:: ca. 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 1/4 × 18 1/2 inches (66.7 × 47 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Mrs. Abington

Creator:: Print made by Elizabeth Judkins, active 1772–1775
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/16 × 11 3/8 inches (38.9 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

28. Mrs. Abington as 'Roxana'

Creator:: Print made by John Keyse Sherwin, c.1751–1790
Date:: ca. 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint with stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/8 × 11 1/2 inches (43.5 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

29. A Negroes Dance in the Island of Dominica

Creator:: Print made by Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/16 x 19 7/8 inches (33.8 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. The Cotillion Dance

Creator:: Print made by James Caldwall, 1739–1819
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 × 13 9/16 inches (25.5 × 34.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Mr. Edwin and Mrs. Wells in the Characters of Lingo and Cowslip

Creator:: Print made by Hugh Downman, d. 1789
Date:: ca. 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper, pasted on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 × 13 1/4 inches (48.2 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Hamlet in Scotland

Creator:: Print made by Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches (28.6 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. The Ragged Concert

Creator:: Print made by Richard Brookshaw, 1736–1804
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/16 x 10 3/16 inches (35.7 x 25.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

34. "The Indian Emperor" or "The Conquest of Mexico"

Creator:: Robert Dodd, 1748–1816
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 11/16 x 21 1/2in. (44.9 x 54.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Gift of David Bindman

35. Mrs. Frances Abington (née Barton) as Roxalana in "The Sultan"

Creator:: John Keyse Sherwin, c.1751–1790
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 7 9/16 inches (24.4 × 19.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Mrs. Frances Abington (née Barton)

Creator:: James Wilson, c.1735–c.1786
Date:: between 1768 and 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 × 10 5/8 inches (36.8 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Mrs. Frances Abington (née Barton)

Creator:: James Wilson, c.1735–c.1786
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on thin, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 15/16 × 4 3/8 inches (15.1 × 11.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. The Musician

Creator:: Print made by Johann Lorenz Haid, 1702–1750
Date:: 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 x 14 7/16 inches (51.5 x 36.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

39. The Musician

Creator:: Print made by Johann Lorenz Haid, 1702–1750
Date:: 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 11 1/8 inches (36.9 x 28.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

40. Griffin and Johnson

Creator:: Print made by Pieter van Bleeck, 1700–1764
Date:: 1748
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, laid on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 5/16 x 12 3/8 inches (46.5 x 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

41. A Negroes Dance in the Island of Dominica

Creator:: Print made by Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 x 15 3/4 inches (33.4 x 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Mrs. Abington as Thalia

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving printed in brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 9/16 × 8 1/4 inches (26.8 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Vauxhall Gardens

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 1/16 x 20 11/16 inches (38.3 x 52.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. A Man doing the Splits

Creator:: George Dance, 1741–1825
Date:: between 1760 and 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 5 3/4 inches (18.7 × 14.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Dancing Bear with Its Keeper, Piper, and Audience of One

Creator:: James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, rough, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 9/16 x 13 1/16 inches (26.9 x 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Mrs. Frances Abington

Creator:: James Watson, 1740–1790
Date:: ca.1769
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 7/8 × 16 inches (65.7 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Portia and Shylock, from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice", IV, i

2. The Return of Othello, 'Othello,' Act II, Scene II

3. David Garrick and George Anne Bellamy in "Romeo and Juliet", Act V, Scene iii

4. Mrs. Cibber as Cordelia

5. Henry Woodward as Petruchio in Catherine and Petruchio, a version by Garrick of "The Taming of the Shrew"

6. Edward Shuter, John Beard, and John Dunstall in Isaac Bickerton's "Love in a Village"

7. Shylock and Tubal from "The Merchant of Venice"

8. A Scene from 'The Maid of the Mill'

9. Rehearsal of an opera

10. Rehearsal of an opera

11. David Garrick and Mrs. Pritchard in Benjamin Hoadly's "The Suspicious Husband"

12. Cordelia Championed by the Earl of Kent, from Shakespeare's "King Lear," I, i

13. Frances Abington (née Barton) as Miss Prue in William Congreve’s “Love for Love”

14. Mrs. Cibber as Cordelia

15. Interior View of Westminster Abbey on the Commemoration of Handel, Taken from the Manager's Box

16. Scene in a park, with figures from the Commedia dell'Arte

17. Mrs. Abington

18. Garrick as Abel Drugger in "The Alchemist"

19. Mrs. Abington as Thalia

20. Mr. Garrick and Miss Bellamy in the Characters of Romeo and Juliet

21. Miss Farren in the Character of Hermione

22. Mrs. Abington As Thalia

23. Mrs. Abington

24. A Choral Band

25. A Raree Show

26. Mrs. Abington as 'the Comic Muse'

27. Mrs. Abington

28. Mrs. Abington as 'Roxana'

29. A Negroes Dance in the Island of Dominica

30. The Cotillion Dance

31. Mr. Edwin and Mrs. Wells in the Characters of Lingo and Cowslip

32. Hamlet in Scotland

33. The Ragged Concert

34. "The Indian Emperor" or "The Conquest of Mexico"

35. Mrs. Frances Abington (née Barton) as Roxalana in "The Sultan"

36. Mrs. Frances Abington (née Barton)

37. Mrs. Frances Abington (née Barton)

38. The Musician

39. The Musician

40. Griffin and Johnson

41. A Negroes Dance in the Island of Dominica

42. Mrs. Abington as Thalia

43. Vauxhall Gardens

44. A Man doing the Splits

45. Dancing Bear with Its Keeper, Piper, and Audience of One

46. Mrs. Frances Abington