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Melpomene in the Dumps, or Child's Play Defended by Theatrical Monarchs

Sarah Siddons|Thomas Rowlandson|D. N. Shury|John Philip Kemble|Rudolph Ackermann, London

1804

Melpomene in the Dumps, or Child's Play Defended by Theatrical Monarchs by Sarah Siddons|Thomas Rowlandson|D. N. Shury|John Philip Kemble|Rudolph Ackermann, London

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Dimensions

Sheet: 17 5/8 × 9 1/2 in. (44.7 × 24.2 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959

Accession Number

59.533.913

Tags

SatireActressesMenWomen

About the Artist

Sarah Siddons|Thomas Rowlandson|D. N. Shury|John Philip Kemble|Rudolph Ackermann, London (British, Welsh|British|British|British|British) · 1755 |1757 |1804 |1757 |1764 –1831 |1827 |1816 |1823 |1834

British, Brecon, Wales 1755–1831 London|British, London 1757–1827 London|London|British, Prescot, Lancashire 1757–1823 Lausanne|British, active 1794–1829

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