This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ...to the Stratford Bust, because this has been hitherto wholly neglected by biographers and critics, or treated slightly or superciliously. In Dugdale's Warwickshire, Bell's edition of our Poet, in the splendid one of Boydell, in Ireland's Tour of the Avon, and in AVheler's pleasing History, 8fc. of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ...to the Stratford Bust, because this has been hitherto wholly neglected by biographers and critics, or treated slightly or superciliously. In Dugdale's Warwickshire, Bell's edition of our Poet, in the splendid one of Boydell, in Ireland's Tour of the Avon, and in AVheler's pleasing History, 8fc. of Stratford, engravings of it have been published; but none of them are perfectly satisfactory: some, indeed, are vulgar and contemptible. The Bust at Stratford is the size of life: it is formed out of a block of soft stone; and was originally painted in imitation of the countenance and dress of the Poet. The eyes were of a light hazel, and the hair and beard, auburn; the doublet, or coat, was scarlet, and covered with a loose black gown, or tabard, without sleeves; the upper part of the cushion was "The Bust, &c. is of a solid block of stone, which Mr. Bullock thinks is either Portland, or Bath. I was misled by Mr. Grubb, when I told you it was of Wilmcote stone in this neighbourhood. It certainly is of no quarry near us, as I could at once see when the Bust was taken down, upon the back of which there was neither date nor inscription."--Letter from It B. Wheler to J. Dritlon, Dec. 1814. green, the under half crimson, and the tassels gilt. Such appear to have been the original features of this important, but neglected or insulted Bust. After remaining in this state above one hundred and twenty years, Mr. John Ward, grandfather to Mrs. Siddons and Mr. Kemble, caused it to be "repaired, in 1748, and the original colours preserved," from the profits of a representation of Othello, f This was a generous, and apparently judicious act; and therefore very unlike the next alteration it was subjected to in 1793. In that year Mr....
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