Dramatic Action Illustrated
Charles Williams, English, active 1797 - 1850
1811
Hand colored engraving on wove paper
Sight: 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)
Sight: 13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift from Karl Schmidt Collection
PR.937.7.18
Publisher
Thomas Tegg, London
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Tho.s Tegg in Cheapside price if color'd / Dramatic Action Illustrated, or Hamlet's Advice to Players, suit the action to the word, and the word to the action; 196; Dedicated to the celebrated Amateur of Fashion
Provenance
Karl Schmidt; given to present collection, 1937.
Catalogue Raisonne
M. D. George, Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, vol. IX, no. 11770.
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