H Beard Print Collection
1750
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1750
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
H Beard Print Collection is a 1750 by Peter Van Bleeck, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows a woman in a stage role. Peter van Bleeck made it long ago, in the 1700s. It’s ink on paper, kept at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. It’s a portrait of Mrs. Cibber acting as Cordelia in Shakespeare’s *King Lear*. She holds a small prop onstage while the scene unfolds. Look up Peter van Bleeck to see more of his work.
A print from 1750 by Peter Van Bleeck depicts Mrs. Cibber in the role of Cordelia during Act III of Shakespeare’s *King Lear*.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Peter Van Bleeck never met a wig he didn’t sketch. The Dutch-born artist, who spent most of his life in London, made a living turning flamboyant 18th-century hairstyles into playful engravings that mocked vanity without…
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