- Title:
- Portrait of John Moody as Foigard
- Additional Title(s):
- Mr. Moody in the Character of Foiguard
- Date:
- between 1769 and 1771
- Materials & Techniques:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 20 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches (52.1 x 36.8 cm), Plate: 19 7/8 x 14 inches (50.5 x 35.6 cm), Image: 18 3/8 x 14 inches (46.7 x 35.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, upper left: "U E"; on back, lower left: "J." in brown ink, on back, lower left: "Moody as Foigard."; on back, lower left: "ic 28877 | [...]"; on back, lower right: "UE | Z 490"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.14612
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- actor | coat | gesture | literary theme | man | plays by George Farquhar (1676/7–1707), playwright | scarf | The Beaux' Stratagem, 1707 | theater (discipline) | tricorne
- Associated People:
- Moody [formerly Cochran], John (1726/7–1812), actor and singer
- 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:40630
- Export:
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- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
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Martin Postle, Johan Zoffany, RA : Society Observed, , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2011, pp. 59, 200, cat. no. 30, NJ18 Z68 + A12 2011 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
John Chaloner Smith, British mezzotinto portraits, being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century : arranged according to the engravers, the inscriptions given at full length, and the variations of state precisely set forth : acc , Martino Pub., Mansfield Centre, CT, 2004, v. 2, pp. 915-16, Marchi no. 11, NE1816.G7 S58 2004 [ORBIS]
Mary Webster, Johan Zoffany, 1733-1810, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2011, p.649, NJ18 Z68 W43 2011 + (YCBA) [YCBA]