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Grimaldi

Drawing
ca.1830 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Hand cut stencil on cream, ribbed paper, with handwritten caption reading 'Grimaldi', probably the English actor, comedian and dancer Joseph Grimaldi (1778 – 1837), ca.1830.

The stencil shows a head and shoulders outline of Grimaldi in the make up and costume he wore when appearing as the Clown, 'Joey'. Grimaldi originally created this role when appearing in the Easter Pantomime at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London in the early 1800s.



Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleGrimaldi (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Ink on paper, printed, drawn.
Brief description
Hand cut stencil on cream, ribbed paper, with handwritten caption reading 'Grimaldi', probably the English actor, comedian and dancer Joseph Grimaldi (1778 – 1837), ca.1830
Physical description
Hand cut stencil on cream, ribbed paper, with handwritten caption reading 'Grimaldi'. The stencil shows a head and shoulders outline of Grimaldi in the make up and costume he wore when appearing as the Clown, 'Joey'.
Dimensions
  • Height: 14.9cm
  • Width: 14.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Grimaldi (Handwritten annotation, centre, base, below image)
  • Cedric/Whyte, 1927 (Artist's signature and date, pencil, bottom left hand corner of image)
  • Transliteration
Credit line
Gabrielle Enthoven Collection
Object history
The stencil was originally found in a scrapbook which contained cuttings from the 1830s.
Subject depicted
Summary
Hand cut stencil on cream, ribbed paper, with handwritten caption reading 'Grimaldi', probably the English actor, comedian and dancer Joseph Grimaldi (1778 – 1837), ca.1830.

The stencil shows a head and shoulders outline of Grimaldi in the make up and costume he wore when appearing as the Clown, 'Joey'. Grimaldi originally created this role when appearing in the Easter Pantomime at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London in the early 1800s.

Collection
Accession number
S.758-2013

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Record createdDecember 20, 2013
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