Title

Scene from "David Garrick," at the Haymarket Theatre: Garrick...[and] Ada Ingot..., 1864. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Scene from "David Garrick," at the Haymarket Theatre: Garrick (Mr. Sothern) entreating Ada Ingot (Miss Moore) to return to her father, 1864. London stage production. 'Those of our readers who are curious to know how Mr. Sothern looks now that he has removed his moustache...will be interested in the Engraving [of] the new play of "David Garrick." Mr. Sothern, as all playgoers know, assumes the trying part of the great English actor...his impersonation is throughout easy and natural. It may seem a curious compliment to pay to one actor who represents another, to say that the performance is remarkably un-stagey - except, of course, when the exigencies of the scene require a display of theatrical art in its ordinary sense...in the scene where he simulates drunkenness he proves himself fully equal to the fresh call upon his powers..."David Garrick,"...has served Mr. Buckstone's purpose by drawing crowded houses...The Sketch we have engraved represents that passage, in the last scene of the play, where Garrick, who has been feigning bad manners that he may cure Aga Ingot of her romantic passion for himself, consoles her for the mortification she has suffered, and persuades her to go home to her father; while the father stands behind to listen'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM24A26_143

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32,0Mb (2,5Mb) / 13,2in x 9,4in / 3949 x 2833 (300dpi)

Keywords

female women woman people male library man men arts play playhouse entertainment art books book guy theatre listening British color stage shelf shelves drama century Britain bookshelf newspapers press lectern print bookshelves literature concept actors acting B&W comforting actor engraved engraving actress Colour 19th century Thespian black & white black and white B W white and black on stage nineteenth century The Print Collector Haymarket Theatre Illustrated London News ILN newspaper Unknown David Garrick Garrick David Robertson Sothern Thomas William Robertson Thomas William T. W. Robertson T. W. T W T W Robertson 19th-century John Baldwin Buckstone Buckstone John Baldwin Edward Askew Sothern Edward Askew