Mr. Kean in the Character of Macbeth

George Henry Harlow|James Dunford|Edmund Kean|Henry Meyer|William Shakespeare

March 20, 1815 · Stipple engraving · Drawings and Prints

Meyer's stipple engraving reproduces a portrait by Harlow that shows the actor Edmund Kean as Macbeth, a role performed at London’s Theatre Drury Lane in 1814. Kean became a celebrity that season and his nuanced style of acting is here suggested. Between 1810 and 1820 Meyer made over 200 prints of actors, writers and leaders of British society published in "Contemporary Portraits" and the "New Monthly Magazine."

Artist

George Henry Harlow|James Dunford|Edmund Kean|Henry Meyer|William Shakespeare

Date

March 20, 1815

Medium

Stipple engraving

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Paul Jeromack, in memory of Robert Tuggle, 2016