Mrs. Siddons
Print
01/01/1783 (published)
01/01/1783 (published)
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This portrait of the great tragic actress Sarah Siddons (1755-1831) by Thomas Cook (?1744-1818) was published on 1st January 1783 in The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, a periodical published in London between 1747 and 1814 by John Hinton and W. Bent. Sarah Siddons was the rage of London by 1783. She had returned to the London stage in October 1792 after six years performing outside London, when her performance at Drury Lane in the title role of Southerne's Isabella, or The Fatal Marriage had taken the town by storm.
The artist and engraver Thomas Cook worked as a printmaker in several contexts, producing portraits for The Gentleman's Magazine and The Universal Magazine, and frontispieces for book publishers, as well single plates in different genres for the publisher and printmaker John Boydell (1719-1804). Cook was best known for his reproductions of the works of Hogarth published in 1806 as Hogarth Restored .
The artist and engraver Thomas Cook worked as a printmaker in several contexts, producing portraits for The Gentleman's Magazine and The Universal Magazine, and frontispieces for book publishers, as well single plates in different genres for the publisher and printmaker John Boydell (1719-1804). Cook was best known for his reproductions of the works of Hogarth published in 1806 as Hogarth Restored .
Object details
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| Title | Mrs. Siddons (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Engraving |
| Brief description | Portrait of Mrs Siddons, drawn and engraved by Thomas Cook, published by The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure by S.A. Cumberledge, Paternoster Row, London, 1st January 1783. Harry Beard Collection |
| Physical description | Head-and-shoulders image of Sarah Siddons, profile, facing to viewer's right, set within an oval. She wears a dress with a bow on the bodice and has ostrich plumes in her hair. |
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| Credit line | Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1996 |
| Production | Paternoster Row, London |
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| Summary | This portrait of the great tragic actress Sarah Siddons (1755-1831) by Thomas Cook (?1744-1818) was published on 1st January 1783 in The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, a periodical published in London between 1747 and 1814 by John Hinton and W. Bent. Sarah Siddons was the rage of London by 1783. She had returned to the London stage in October 1792 after six years performing outside London, when her performance at Drury Lane in the title role of Southerne's Isabella, or The Fatal Marriage had taken the town by storm. The artist and engraver Thomas Cook worked as a printmaker in several contexts, producing portraits for The Gentleman's Magazine and The Universal Magazine, and frontispieces for book publishers, as well single plates in different genres for the publisher and printmaker John Boydell (1719-1804). Cook was best known for his reproductions of the works of Hogarth published in 1806 as Hogarth Restored . |
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| Accession number | S.148-1997 |
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| Record created | October 20, 2009 |
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