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D5459 - George Murgatroyd Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist - [c1780]-1840
- 1 - Drawings - [c1780]-1809
  - 34 - [Shakespearean drawings] - 1787

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D5459/1/34/18
Former Reference	D5459/1/102
Title	King Henry VIII : Mr Digges as Cardinal Wolsey
Date	Mar 1787
Description	Portrait of Digges looking to the right and holding out his hands. He is wearing white robes with a red mitre and and a long red cloak. He wears a large white collar around his shoulders and his long grey hair is loose. Available on CD 157.
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Artist	Woodward, George Murgatroyd (?1765-1809)
Archive Creator	George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer
Further Information	G.M. Woodward Delin : March 1787 "Wolsey / O Cromwell; Cromwell, had I but serv'd \| my God, with half of the zeal I serv'd my king, \| he would not in my age have left me naked \| to mine enemies. -" Dudley West Digges [1720? - 1786] made his stage debut at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin in 1749. He first played Wolsey at the Canongate Theatre in Edinburgh in 1756. He played the part six times in the 1777-8 season at Covent Garden, and again at the Haymarket on 24/8/1779 in a benefit for himself. A review in 1777 described him as a playing: "his famous Wolsey in Henry VIII in his rather agreeably pompous manner".
Physical Description	Coloured drawing. Size 266 x 204 mm. Portrait.
Copies	A digital copy can also be viewed on the public computers at the record office.
Publication Note	B.D.A., London Stage.
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