[Spranger Barry] M.r Barry in the Character of Macbeth. Axt 2.d Scene 3.
Ja.s Gwim. [engraved by Michael Jackson.] Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map & Printseller in Fleet Str.t. Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Scarce mezzotint. 345 x 240mm (13½ x 9½"), large margins. Edges rubbed. Messy. A full-length portrait of Irish actor Spranger Barry (1719-77), a daggar in each hand. He was a rival of David Garrick: in 1750 the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane and the Covent Garden Theatre put on competing performances of 'Romeo and Juliet', and the critics preferred Barry's Romeo to Garrick's. CS I, ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
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