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Description: | Painting depicts the actor David Garrick in character as Don John in The Chances at the Theatre Royal, April, 1773. In his arms he is holding a baby; the painting is depicting the moment from Act 1, scene 2, of Garrick's adaptation of Beaumont and Fletcher's comedy, when the character Don John, wandering through the dark streets of Naples, is mistakenly and rather surprisingly presented with an unknown baby; 'What have I got by this now?' he exclaims, 'A Child!'. Garrick played the role on the 15 and 17 November 1773, also the 1 February and March 1774. | Subjects: | David portrait (Garrick as Don John) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Loutherbourg, Philip James de (French painter and scenographer, 1740-1812, active in Great Britain) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8618... | Go to resource |
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