Show Interesting Collection Of oi Pictures P I Cambridge Mass There has as u recently been added to the Harvard library IY as I the gift of about t twenty graduates a collection of print prints illustrating the life of ot the great English player David Daid I Garrick who ho is usual usually y credited w with ith introducing the modern methods of et I acting Garrick that is taught ta his f audiences to appreciate a subtle study of 0 human character r rather than the exaggerated declamation and pompous acting which had kad possession I oi ot o the stage in the generation imme mime immediately diatel preceding him Unlike most mon collections of ot the prints fn Tn the Harvard Hanard library are tre strictly con eon confined lined fined to Garrick himself a fact which eh gives ves them a more condensed interest than is possessed by many larger col collections i I At the sale of the Augustine Daly Dal collection in New York for ex example example example I ample there re were two noteworthy ex examples e amples of extra illustration one of them a two t o volume edition of a life ef of Garrick which had been extended to ten volumes by the insertion of several hundred portraits engravings play playbills playbills bills and autograph letters l and theother the theother theother other a volume which had bees been en enlarged from two volumes to seven by bythe bythe bythe the addition of illustrations but ut the additional prints included not only Garrick but a small smal army of contemporaries c The Har Harvard ard collection originally origInally origInally brought broUSh t together torether by a London amateur and sold to the th lh university by bya a well wen known London dealer consists of 21 prints all of which are re pictures picture of the actor himself I IThe The collection valuable itt first ef of all aU te to i students of ot the drama or of manners m is la of very ry general interest as a basis baa j for comparing the theatrical Situation a I to of et our own time with w ith that bat of ot the latter Jatter I half halt of the eighteenth century It is I interesting to know for instance that even en before the era of photography the tm features of a star tyke like Garrick were reproduced by the artists brush and I II the engravers burin almost aI OlOSt as gener generously ener I as now by the camera Garrick was war painted not once onee but many times each by Hogarth by Gainsborough by Sir Joshua Reynolds and by I to say nothing of other less lesl famous I artists and these paintings were again a ltd d again copied by bf various engravers In the Harvard collection K s see pe few of these engra engravIngs ings are familiar enough like Ha picture of Garrick Ganick in inthe inthe the tent scene in Richard Riehard III IU pr PI like Uk Sir Joshua Reynolds Garrick Be Between Between Between tween Tragedy and Comedy with its explanatory inscription Strive not tragedy nor comedy to engross iI a Gar Gap 1 rick who to your our noblest characters does equal honor Others showing the actor in his various characters f r plc pic picturing turing him as a figure of ot caricature are perhaps more interesting because less lea wen well en known Among the works of the better known artists are a print engraved from Rey Reynolds Reynolds I painting of Garrick as Kitely in Rare Ben Every Man hi In His IDs I Humor and prints print of H paintings of Garrick as the farmer In Inthe InI I II I I the now forgotten play the Farmers Return and of Garrick and his hla wife I JW I the daJ dacer Mada lIe Violetti An I earlier engraving dated 1743 1745 and andI printed for R H Baldwin jr at ye The Hose HoseIn TheIn e In Paternoster Row shows the two i I before their marriage and a later print etched by b J R C In 1820 hews Mrs Garrick at the great age of 97 more than forty years ars after alter Her r hus hue husbands husband hands bands death Of the acted by Garrick In all something over outer i are represented in the collation These character portraits accordingly rep resent rent very veil well ell the t e activity of o the ma f v Ilk Uk many mam ur t 1 th li ading j a Ing lights oT of ft th the m mode a ii tag stage he ht hes s served in t th and show how ho hoal al aho o the survival of the fittest t as i s it applies aplies to dramatic literature R Rich Richard ch chard ard III Ill Benedict lt in Much luch do A bout N th ng Macbeth Lear Lar and Hamlet ar nr are still acted The others other some of if ar from plays i t that lat hivan hiv an hd position in the th library but hut the majority from pieces pie Es practical practically ly forgotten even een by bv the reader are is 15 follows Abel D user in th tha Al 1 th cli h mist Mr in Ml MIss 1118 j in H HIe Hr Teens Ie ns on of f the thi plays written b hy by Garrick himself Leon in Rule a a ad d Have Hae a Wife in ill Lu Ru Lord in Lethe Loth Demetrius in the Brothers Kitely In Every Man in His Humor the Countryman in the gu to Bar Barbarossa Barbarossa Barbarossa barossa Ranger in the Suspicious Husband Sir John Brute in n the Provoked Wife the Farmer in the Farmers Return Lusignan in Za Zara Zara Zara ra Don John in the Chances hames t Don Felix FeUx in the Wonder Yonder Osmyn in the Mourning Bride the Drunker Sailor SaBo In the prologue to Britannia Arch Archer Archel er el in m the Beaus Stratagem Ed Edward Edward Edward ward in Edward the Black Prince and Bayes In the Reh arsala a part of or which was written as is a takeo takeo on the great John Dryden but hut which was later biter ter successively adapted to in elude imitations of pr por j y actors and which was wa finally aban abandoned by Garrick in answer to their remonstrance that the success of his mimicry was spoiling their stand standI I in with ith audiences s ih c turning of these character portraits presents some carious curious anomalies anomalies alies alice As is ia generally known know n accuracy of o costume as we understand such ac accuracy accuracy curacy today was wan not one of the ar artistic artistic necessities of the eighteenth eich cen century century century tury stage and asid one must not be sur our surprised surprised priced therefore to find that Garrick dressed Hamlet in hi a skirted coat of his own period that be he provided Macbeth with ruffles and a curled or that his Benedict strikingly suggests the Richard Carrel Carvel of our own stage More surprising Is the elegance of these costumes co and in their own way their artistic completeness which without leaving the dress of ot the actors period goes coes so iIO far as to put a patch on the old Shoe oe worn by Abel in hr the Alchemist AlcIN Three cartoons ca illustrate the end less struggle I between en the legitimate Ie drama and popular amuse amusement ment mont of a spectacular and kind comparable to our modern vaude vaudevilles villes yUles or the minstrel shows of o a gen generation generation ago One of ot these a rare print called the Theatrical Steelyards of at 1750 1760 signalizes the success of ot panto pantomime pantomime pantomime mime at Drury Lane theatre after an unsuccessful season seaon of serl seri seriously written plays Garrick In turn turning turning turning ing to pantomime had taken a leaf out of another managers book and the cartoon depicts him triumphantly bearing down one side aide of the scale of popular success while his rivals among them the famous ton hang vainly suspended from the other and Harlequin himself dances triumph triumphant ant In the foreground The others de depict depict the attitude of the upholders of the legitimate toward an actor who seemed to be turning his acknowledged L talents wholly toward the spectacular in which the eighteenth century was I Inot not so 80 far behind the nineteenth and twentieth as people would sometimes have haye us think Although the engraving itself is ni nione one of those hose that has been marked market by the col after the manner of col cot collector lector as very ery rare the only one OflE I ever saw aw w paid 4 for this or only one I ever eyer saw sw or expect to I thc thi p who wh licks through the col j lection will pause for tor some mn moment moments j jo o over er tile the last 18 the tire great greatt pies plater pl nd th the a C viner fa far faC if rf f his hioS eu i tilt tile artist ati t Th 1 h hIl Il lr print nt it IS a u p prot prof o if lir PU fl t Upi pi 1 from a miniature i says the not note that accompanies f s it by the owe one famous Louisa Louta Lane L ne who to her other i excellencies excel ies in the polite arts added the th novel one of w working the real hair kir kiri i of her Mr IntI into portraits portrait Garrick s letur letter to Mi Miss I mo was is writ Wilt t i te i a few months before belore bi hi leath an ani 1 says ay y Mr Mi presents pe his hi comp Tonu compto to Lare HP has sent a lack of i Mrs drs Garrick and his own hair he I has but one lock behind or he w ad d have hav i S t more Mr if 1 much lD h to t Miss s Lane T ane for foi 01 her p PI about hiv hi picture But the h hai i 1 oi of tte tre sitter Bitter was In this case as not u d the lack h ck to which Garrick refer reter ir h hing ing been retained by the artist as I Ip precious p cious to spar out o t of f h ht possession |