Details
Contributor Longacre, James Barton, 1794-1869, engraver.
Neagle, John, 1796-1865, painter.
Poole, Andrew R., d. 1835, publisher.
Title Duff, Mary Ann, 1795-1857.
Alternate title Mrs. Duff, as Mary / engraved by J.B. Longacre from a painting by J. Neagle.
Publisher Philadelphia : Published by A.R. Poole.
Date 1826.
Physical description 1 print : engraving ; 13.3 x 8.1 cm.
Description Bust-length portrait of the actress in costume.
Notes In Barker, James N. The tragedy of superstition (Philadelphia, 1826), frontispiece.
“An incomplete list of [Mrs. Duff’s] performances reveals that she played at least 220 different roles in her career. Junius Booth called her the greatest tragic actress in the world and John Gilbert proclaimed that she had no superior. Joseph N. Ireland, her biographer and a stage historian of considerable experience with actors, believed she was the best tragic actress in nineteenth-century America.” -- Claudia Durst Johnson (1999). “Duff, Mary Ann Dyke”. American National Biography. 7. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 19-20.
Genre Portrait prints -- 1820-1829.
Engravings -- 1820-1829.
Subject Duff, Mary Ann, 1795-1857 -- Portraits.
Women.
Actresses.