Accession number
PML 143905.9
Published
London : Published by J.L. Marks, 91 Long Lane, Smithfield, 1839 December 17
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Forms part of a bound album containing a collection of prints published by J.L. Marks and the later firm of S. Marks and Sons (see "John Lewis Marks album," PML 143905).
Forms part of a bound album containing a collection of prints published by J.L. Marks and the later firm of S. Marks and Sons (see "John Lewis Marks album," PML 143905).
Description
1 print : etching and stipple ; sheet: 247 x 197 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Full length portrait of the actor Leonora Pincott (later Wigan) as Almeadia in the anonymous burletta "The giant of Palestine", shown in midstep, looking 3/4 to the left, wearing an elaborate gown and pantaloons along with a headdress with a vail; in her right hand she holds a spear, and at far right a snake is wrapped around a small tree.
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