The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-03-11 00:00:00

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S ECOND OROS P /KM US OF Tid BRI SH
THEATRICAL GALLERY.
BY U. TERRY, Raj.
OF TOO TV AAAAA aov
The motives which suggested the present wodertsideg,
were, ehially s wish to develops the Intracter and progress •
of the HisMioole Art,—to establish a IOOFIIOIFOSIIi pleas oft
mord, the. as yet existed, for the sholtiOrl of those whose!
Welds have antalhaked to its advaemmeat, sad to gratify:
the natural desire. of pommesigg seaways sod well-delaised.
likenesses of ail from whams promotion's la art we bass de-1
rived oar mud reined amid hmliteihims sailkomons.
That the derea's Art is as sweet of ma ea-,
joymeat, the ..anemia eel mileinrf option has hag ad.;
milted; but Illobandeat wawa et Ate !abates hal been de-',
plored as oftea as adimeerledgett. While* 'torts of the.
Poet, the relater, tad the iresieise, are traasailttad, with
aadialaislied it lacewing iniamow, to future ages, those
of the Assist neessamily perish with himself: his reputation
survives air Is the repast of others, aid all the Impression
steaming Rom ant melee of tbosagewers, by which the
player aerpired hoe sad favour hoes eontemporartes,
mut be altefined *mash the seeoadary medium of the pee
or the peasil; truth. therefore, simple and direct, is both
these, sod the highest lialsh of execution Intim last, become
of indispensable Importance, in order that the Actor may
lave the full advastage of his masque! share le the adad-
ratios of posterity.
That these requisites may be insured es mach as possible
40 the 'meat work, neither labour nor expose* will be
sparol.
The work will welsh' the Portraits of all the most ce-
lebrated English Actors of our own time, in their favourite
Characters, the Costume of which will be carefully corrected
from the best sources of Information, so that the hook may
be safely cousulted as authority erosible point, by Actors
and Artists.
A brief descriptive Memoir will accompany each portrait ;
and the Preface, comprisiag Review of the Histrioule Art,
from the earliest periods to the present day, will bo,giveni
is the last Number) and will he illustrated by as stay
Portraits of oar ancient Actors as eta be obtained mid
rut amiivoissdi

Is the form of Appendix will be given • kw of
,Ile per-
formers of the Minor Theatre., and of the Italian Opera-
Hone, as established In this country.

CONIIITIOMI or n•sLICATION. •
The engravings will be executed in the Lbw and Chalk
wanner by Mr. R. Cooper and other raiment Engravers,
after Paintiags and Drawings by viir T. Lawrenee.
%friars. Clint, A.K.A. Sharpe, Marlowe, De Wilde, Wal-
deek, &e.

Each Number will contain Ore plates, with appropriate
teal, price !Ss.
Ditto, beautifully coloured, 11. Is.
Ditto. large paper. proofs on India paper, with two sets
of Plates, plain and coloured, of which only fifty copies will
be printed, H. is.
The Work will rompri.e about *3 Numbers.
Printed for 11. Berthoud, jun. 64, Sweat's Quadrant,
Piccadilly, where Specimens may be seen ; alstat Messrs.
Jennings; Was; enapple ; eolnaghi ; Chaftple and tine:
Rooth ; Major; Budd aid Colitis; Molten*: Simpkin and
Marshall; Sherwood, Neely, and Jones; Myler ; Cribb;
Fearman; Bussenie and Co.; Collings. Seth; rtmemings,
Dublin; 11111 and Co. and Wilson and Co Edinburgh.
Neuaber ()t. will be reedy April Ist, and contains the fol-
lowing Portraits:
Messrs. KrAV after Clint.. in R. Cooper.
Ksiont Ditto Ditto
H Sharpe-- Ditto
li4i Tla Ditto
Mile, NO LitT Waldeck... Ditto
Heutlensee possessing the ird Number. Imblished.i.
the Lithostraphie Stvie, are requested l 4 torwunt the same
to their rrspvctnr HookseLers that they May he changed.,