Margaret Woffington, d. 1760 – Vintage Print
![Margaret Woffington, d. 1760, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/de/de5d78cbf9eb-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Margaret Woffington, d. 1760. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Margaret Woffington, d. 1760
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Margaret Woffington, the Dublin-born actress who died in 1760, is the sitter here. The record links the image to a painting by William Hogarth, though that attribution is marked as unverified. Woffington was one of the leading performers of her day, moving between Dublin, Covent Garden and Drury Lane and earning praise in both comic and tragic roles. Hogarth painted her more than once, and his portraits remain among the best-known likenesses of an eighteenth-century stage star. This halftone reproduction is worth noticing for how it carried her likeness to viewers who would never see the original canvas.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Notes | Halftone repro. of painting? by William Hogarth. No. 582. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: A/P/P I.; BI; Pub. Ind.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,157 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-156947 |
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