When Garrick was in Paris in November 1764 he wrote to his brother in London: ‘I am so plagu’d here for my Prints or rather Prints of Me - that I must desire You to send me by ye first opportunity six prints from Reynolds’s picture, You may apply to ye Engraver he lives in Leicester fields, & his name is Fisher, he will give you good ones, if he knows they are for Me - You must likewise send me a King Lear by Wilson, Hamlet do Jaffier & Belv[idera] by Zoffani, speak to him for two or 3, & what Else he may have done of Me - There is likewise a print of Me, as I am, from Liotard’s picture Scrap’d by MacArdel, send me 2 or 3 of them, speak to MacArdel, & any other prints of Me, if tolerable, that I can’t remember'
So it definitely sounds as if he was being asked to give out autographed photos :-D (And very sensibly was getting engravings "scraped" from the paintings already in existence, although since he is only talking about a print run of six or so I wonder if there were technological limitations to the process...)
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Re: Garrick
Date: 2024-07-14 05:32 pm (UTC)So it definitely sounds as if he was being asked to give out autographed photos :-D
(And very sensibly was getting engravings "scraped" from the paintings already in existence, although since he is only talking about a print run of six or so I wonder if there were technological limitations to the process...)