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Peg Woffington in the costume of a male volunteer

Maker

(artist)
1700-1799

Title

Peg Woffington in the costume of a male volunteer

Date of Production

(circa) 1746

Medium

graphite, pen and grey and brown ink, some black wash and white bodycolour on laid paper, with grey ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 26.5 cm
Width: 19.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2096

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords


volunteers




Related Works

An Epilogue intended to be spoken by Mrs Woffington

Label Text

This drawing was made as a guide for an engraver; the unknown draughtsman has restricted the pen work to the parallel and cross-hatched lines which an engraver could cut in a copper printing plate.

Notes

See the engraving after this drawing also in the Courtauld collection, accession number G.1990.WL.5677, published in 1746, which was produced as a Prologue to Shakespeare's Henry V.

Provenance

acquired from an anonymous source by Colnaghi (London), 6 May 1942, along with G.1990.WL.5677; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 6 May 1942, for £2; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Shakespeare in Pictures, Ulster Museum, Belfast, 1964

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 60

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, right centre edge, fragment: tip of a crown? or lower portion of a foolscap?

Inscription: An EPILOGUE intended to be spoken by Mrs Woffington in the Habit of a Volunteer / upon reading the Gazette containing an Account of the late Action at Falkirk //

Inscription: The London Gaz[...] / EXTRAOR[...] //

Inscription: 1745

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

Inscription: ORIGINAL POEMS, 115 / That's hope -- then I have learnt to sing --there's / merit .... So, Sirs, farewel -- I'll march, and take my gun on, / [Takes up her Firelock, and marches off shoulder'd] / PROLOGUE, //

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