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    • Author/Creator:Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker.
    • Title:Dramatic action illustrated, or, Hamlet's advice to players, suit the action to the word, and the word to the action [graphic].
    • Publication:[London] : Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, [1811?]
    • Physical Description:1 print : etching ; plate mark 25.1 x 35 cm, on sheet 27 x 38 cm

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      • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
        Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library

      • Call Number: Folio 75 W87 807 v.3
      • Status:No information available 
      • Notes:1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
        Leaf 51 in volume 3.
      • Provenance:Myers; May 1942.
        Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left.
      •   Digital version of v.3
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      • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
        Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library

      • Call Number: 811.00.00.16+ Impression 2
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Notes:1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; 12 x 35 cm.
        Top half only of Impression 1.
      • Provenance:Caricatures II; September 1968; Acquisitions no.: 968-9-1-212.
       
    • Medium:wove paper
    • Notes:Title etched below image.
      Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
      Possibly a later state; beginning of imprint statement appears to have been burnished from plate.
      Text following title: Dedicated to the celebrated amateur of fashion.
      Plate numbered "196" in upper right corner.
      Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3.
      Also issued separately.
      "Price 1/ color'd."--Following imprint.
    • Summary:A actor in a costume that includes a large bow at his waist, a cape, and a hat with large plumes demonstrates six positions to convey dramatic emotion, each of the six appear in separate boxes with captions.
    • In_: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror. V. 3.
    • Variant and related titles:Hamlet's advice to players, suit the action to the word, and the word to the action
    • Format:Visual Material
    • References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9, no. 11770
    • Subjects:Coates, Robert, 1772-1848--Caricatures and cartoons.
      Movement (Acting)--Study and teaching.
      Costumes.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership.
    • Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1811.
      Etchings--England--London--1811.
    • Also listed under:Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9160412