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Beschreibung:

circa 22 x 16 cm., 1 leaf. verso blank Rare engraving showing the aged actor Charles Macklin (1690-1797) playing Macbeth in Scottish dress, below the lines: "I see thee yet, inform as palpable / As that which now I draw---". Trimmed at the left side with little loss of the lettering: "(Young Van)ity invt" then "Old Envy sculp." and "Pub by M Darly Nov. 5. 1773. 39. Strand . where any sketch that is fair game will have due Honor shewn." - We quote the commentary of M.Dorothy George in "Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum", V, 1935: "Macklin appeared, 3 October 1773, as Macbeth, the part being played for the first time in Scottish dress, before a very hostile audience, who expected to be "spectators of his downfall", thinking his age would not allow him to go through the part to the end. "Lady Macbeth's modern robes by no means accorded with the habits of the other personages, and Mr. Macklin's flowing curls, like the locks of an Adonis, were unpardonably out of character".

Bemerkung:

- Only little browning, apart frpm the trimmed left side fine.