19. William Say (1768-1834)
after John James Masquerier (1778-1855)
Miss Mellon in the Character of Mistress Page

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Say: Miss Mellon

Miss Mellon in the Character of Mistress Page

Mezzotint, 1804, 675 x 423 mm., Le Blanc N.D. Very fine impression on tan india-appliqué with good margins. For some unknown reason, the print is mentioned neither by Le Blanc nor in the British Museum Catalogue of Engraved English Portraits, but it is clearly signed by Say. The scene is from Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, Scene I, with Mistress Page vowing revenge on Falstaff. Harriet Mellon (1777-1837) came from a dubious background to become one of the great comic actresses of the British stage, later the wife of the richest untitled man in England and finally, by dint of a second marriage, Duchess of St. Alban’s.

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