Eddison Collection
Print
1769 (printed)
1769 (printed)
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Susanna Centlivre's 1714 play The Wonder was extremely popular throughout the 18th century. The character of Don Felix was one of David Garrick's best-loved roles and one that he first performed with Ann Barry on 20 October 1768, and for that last time at Drury Lane Theatre on 10 June 1776.
David Garrick (1717-1779) was one of the greatest actors of his age, and the manager of the Drury Lane from 1747. Ann Barry (1733-1801) was the actress Ann Dancer who worked with the actor Spranger Barry in Dublin and became his second wife in about 1768. Her first London engagement was in 1766 at Drury Lane Theatre playing Desdemona to Barry's Othello and when Spranger Barry rejoined the company in 1767, Barry and Mrs. Dancer became a familiar partnership on stage. Before long, however, the familiar pattern of hostility between Garrick and Barry resumed, fuelled by the increasing unreliability of both Barry and his wife. She married after the death of Spranger Barry in 1777 but is buried in Westminster Abbey beside her best-loved husband Spranger Barry.
David Garrick (1717-1779) was one of the greatest actors of his age, and the manager of the Drury Lane from 1747. Ann Barry (1733-1801) was the actress Ann Dancer who worked with the actor Spranger Barry in Dublin and became his second wife in about 1768. Her first London engagement was in 1766 at Drury Lane Theatre playing Desdemona to Barry's Othello and when Spranger Barry rejoined the company in 1767, Barry and Mrs. Dancer became a familiar partnership on stage. Before long, however, the familiar pattern of hostility between Garrick and Barry resumed, fuelled by the increasing unreliability of both Barry and his wife. She married after the death of Spranger Barry in 1777 but is buried in Westminster Abbey beside her best-loved husband Spranger Barry.
Object details
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| Title | Eddison Collection (named collection) |
| Materials and techniques | Printed paper |
| Brief description | Ann Barry and David Garrick as Donna Violante and Don Felix in The Wonder, a Woman Keeps a Secret by Susanna Centlivre, Drury Lane Theatre 27 April 1714. Engraving, coloured by hand, printed by J. Smith and R. Sayer, London 1769. |
| Physical description | Hand-coloured engraving showing David Garrick as Don Felix seated behind Ann Barry as Donna Violante who holds either a paper or some material in her hands. She is dressed in a tight-bodiced, full-skirted magenta dress with pink decorative panels on the skirt, while he wears a blue cutaway jacket, waistcoat and knee breeches and has a rapier hanging by his side. They both wear powdered wigs, hers decorated with a feather. The image is above a text reading: 'MRS BARRY and MR GARRICK in the Characters of Donna Violante and Don Felix in the Wonder. Done from an original Picture in the Possession of Her Grace the Duchess of Northumberland. Printed for J. Smith No.35 Cheapside & R. Sayer No.53 Fleet Street; 1769' |
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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 | Printed for J. Smith No.35 Cheapside & R. Sayer No.53 Fleet Street |
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| Summary | Susanna Centlivre's 1714 play The Wonder was extremely popular throughout the 18th century. The character of Don Felix was one of David Garrick's best-loved roles and one that he first performed with Ann Barry on 20 October 1768, and for that last time at Drury Lane Theatre on 10 June 1776. David Garrick (1717-1779) was one of the greatest actors of his age, and the manager of the Drury Lane from 1747. Ann Barry (1733-1801) was the actress Ann Dancer who worked with the actor Spranger Barry in Dublin and became his second wife in about 1768. Her first London engagement was in 1766 at Drury Lane Theatre playing Desdemona to Barry's Othello and when Spranger Barry rejoined the company in 1767, Barry and Mrs. Dancer became a familiar partnership on stage. Before long, however, the familiar pattern of hostility between Garrick and Barry resumed, fuelled by the increasing unreliability of both Barry and his wife. She married after the death of Spranger Barry in 1777 but is buried in Westminster Abbey beside her best-loved husband Spranger Barry. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | S.431-1997 |
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| Record created | September 26, 2007 |
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