Martin Postle, Johann Zoffany, Women Players and Eighteenth Century Theatre

Dr Martin Postle, Assistant Director, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art The following images were used by Dr Postle, they have been blurred out in the film because of copyright reasons: Johan Zoffany, David Garrick, c.1766-7, The Garrick Club, London; Johan Zoffany, Mr & Mrs Garrick by the Shakespeare Temple at Hampton, 1762, Private Collection; Johan Zoffany, David Garrick and Mary Bradshaw in ‘The Farmer’s Return’, c.1762, The Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection; James Basire after William Hogarth‘The Farmer’s Return’1762, etching British Museum; Johan Zoffany, David Garrick and Susannah Cibber as Jaffier and Belvidera in ‘Venice Preserv’d’, 1762, The Holburne Museum, Bath; Joshua Reynolds, Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy, 1760-1, Private Collection; Valentine Green after Johan Zoffany David Garrick and Mrs Pritchard in ‘Macbeth’, 1776, mezzotint engraving, British Museum; Johan Zoffany, David Garrick and Hannah Pritchard in ‘Macbeth’, 1768, The Garrick Club, London; Henry Fuseli, David Garrick and Mrs Pritchard as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth after the murder of Duncan, c. 1766, Kunsthaus, Zurich; Johan Zoffany Sophia Baddeley and Thomas King in ‘The Clandestine Marriage’, 1771, The Garrick Club, London; Richard Earlom after Johan Zoffany, ‘The Clandestine Marriage’, 1772, mezzotint, British Museum; Ephraim Welsh after Joshua Reynolds, ‘Mrs Baddely’, mezzotint engraving, 10 August 1772, British Museum; Robert Laurie after Johan Zoffany, ‘Mrs Baddely’, mezzotint engraving, 1 September 1772, British Museum; Johan Zoffany, Mrs Abington as the Widow Bellmour in ‘The Way to Keep Him’ c.1768, Petworth House, The National Trust; Johan Zoffany, Queen Charlotte with her Two Eldest Sons, 1764-5, Her Majesty the Queen Joshua Reynolds; Mrs Abington as the Comic Muse, c.1764-8, Waddesdon Manor, The National Trust; Johan Zoffany Miss Elizabeth Farren as Hermione in ‘The winter’s Tale’, c.1780 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Portrait of An Actress, c.1770, Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Anthony Walker; Frontispiece to ‘The Desert Island’ by Arthur Murphy 1762, etching British Museum; ? Hannah Mary Pritchard as ‘Sylvia’, c.1769; Thomas Gainsborough Mary Robinson, 1781, The Wallace Collection, London; Thomas King as Touchstone in ‘As You Like It’, 1780, The Garrick Club, London; Joseph Grozer after John Graham Tryphosa Jane Wallis, 1790s, mezzotint National Portrait Gallery, London; Johan Zoffany, Scene from ‘Speculation’, 1796, The Garrick Club, London (before conservation); Johan Zoffany, Scene from ‘Speculation’, 1796, The Garrick Club, London (after conservation);