Garrick on Cotton
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Article by Edith A. Standen on an English copperplate-printed cotton (toile) long called French, now identified as showing scenes from David Garrick's play Lethe (1740, revised 1749). She identifies the characters (Lord Chalkstone, Aesop, Mrs. Riot played by Kitty Clive, the Old Man, the Fine Gentleman) and traces their sources in contemporary engravings. She dates the Metropolitan Museum example to 1774 or later from the blue warp threads in the selvedge required by the English Act of 1774. The scan has 19 plates, mostly English embroideries from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (c. 1500-1686), plus the printed cotton as Plate 19.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1961
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 22
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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