IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 240145 accession number: P.15116-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 9 January 2020 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: After the painting by Zoffany (c.1780; the whereabouts of the original painting are not given in Webster nor is there any listing of this title at the Royal Academy Summer exhibitions. A half-length line engraving by John Goldar after the same composition was published by Bellamy & Robarts in 1789). King played the character of Puff in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's, The Critic at the Drury Lane Theatre in August 1779. Standing full-length in the corner of an empty room/stage. Facing front, head turned and looking towards the left. Holding papers in his left hand to which he points with his right. Holds his hat under his left arm and cane in left hand. Wears long, embroidered frock coat with waistcoat and breeches, buckled shoes and cravat. Wears a short, powdered wig. title: print LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay, 1912 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240145 TECHNIQUES ---------- mezzotint CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1803 - 1803 creation date earliest: 1803 creation date latest: 1803 culture: 18th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Young, John maker: King, Thomas maker: Zoffany, Johann Joseph