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Description: | Lethe was David Garrick's first essay in dramatic writing. The play relates how Proserpine begged from Pluto the favour that humans might once a year be allowed to drink the waters of forgetfulness of the river Lethe. Aesop was to judge those fit to receive them. It remained a stock piece in Garrick's repertoire. As with 1948P39, its companion, the cast depicted were in the 1766 revival. The picture illustrates the following lines: 'Bowman: Does your Lordship propose a wager as proof the goodness of your head?' | Subjects: | portrait (Garrick Ellis;Bransby Astley); literature (Garrick's Lethe) David' Ackman | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Zoffany, Johann (German painter, 1733-1810, active in England) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9171... | Go to resource |
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