Garrick reading the ode at the Shakespeare jubilee

Watson, Caroline (1760 or 1761-1814)

Pine, Robert Edge (born ca. 1730-1742, died 1788) (after a work of)

Boydell, John (1719 or 1720-1804) (workshop of)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

1784

Height:

62.0 cm  (24 7/16 in.)

Width:

45.3 cm  (17 13/16 in.)

image: 23 3/8 x 16 7/8 inches (59.3 x 42.9 cm)

Technique / Medium:

stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper

Description

This print presents the figure of David Garrick possibly declaiming lines from near the end of his lengthy ode to Shakespeare. He stands, with his left hand over his heart and his right hand gesturing upward, beside a tall monument topped by Roubiliac's statue of Shakespeare. In the background are architectural details, and figures and symbols from various Shakespearean plays and poetry, including one person playing a long herald trumpet. In the margin of the work are a salutation "to Mrs. Montagu" and lines from Garrick's "An ode upon dedicating a building, and erecting a statue, to Shakespeare, at Stratford upon Avon. By D.G:"

People as subjects

Garrick, David (1717-1779)
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Roubiliac, Louis François (born ca. 1695-1702, died 1762)
Montagu, Elizabeth (1718 or 1720-1800)

Iconclass

57B1
Praise, Approbation, Approval; 'Lode' (Ripa)
48C8021
symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ dramatic literature
82
literary characters and objects
49L8
inscription

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

End-blown trumpet [6556]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Garrick, David. An ode upon dedicating a building, and erecting a statue, to Shakespeare, at Stratford upon Avon. By D.G (London: printed for T. Becket, and P.A. De Hondt, 1769) http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004807629.0001.000

Notes

Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower right: "? ALEXANDER"
Lettered in black ink, lower left: "R. E. Pine pinxt | To Mrs: Montagu, this Plate"; lower center, left side: "Can British gratitude delay, | To him the glory of this Isle;"; lower center: "GARRICK. | To him, the first of Poets! – best of Men! | We ne'er shall look upon his like again!"; lower center, right side: "To give the festive day, | The Song, the Statue, the devoted pile! | See Garrick's Ode to Shakespeare."; lower right: "Caroline Watson Sculpt,, | is most respectfully inscribed. | London. Published March 25th, 1784 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside."

RIdIM record id

6269