Open full image Pin

H Beard Print Collection

Gerard Vander Gucht

1735

From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum

Baroque 18th Century

Dominant colour

H Beard Print Collection is a 1735 by Gerard Vander Gucht, a Baroque work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Who painted this?: Gerard Vander Gucht
When & what style?: 1735 · Baroque
Where can I see it?: Victoria and Albert Museum

About this work

This print shows a stage moment from 1735. John Rich as Harlequin crushes the printed names of Shakespeare, Rowe and Jonson underfoot. It’s from the Beard Print Collection. The line above the image jokes that those famous writers are now “quite undone” by Lun’s antics at Covent Garden. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum for more prints by Gerard Vander Gucht.

The story of this work

Overview

A 1765 print by Gerard Vander Gucht depicts John Rich as Harlequin on the Covent Garden stage, trampling the works of Shakespeare, Rowe, and Jonson, with an inscription reading "Shakespear, Rowe, Johnson, now are quite undone These are thy Tryumphs, thy Exploits O Lun!"

Read the full account in the museum source.