Miss Horton as Morgana
Priscilla Horton (later Reed) was a singer and dancer who appeared on the London stage from the age of ten. In 1837 she joined the Covent Garden company managed by William Charles Macready and here appears as Morgana (Morgan Le Fay), the sorceress of Arthurian legend, perhaps in one of the "fairy burlesques" popular on the London stage in the late 1830s.
Artwork Details
- Title: Miss Horton as Morgana
- Artist: Isaac Robert Cruikshank (British, London 1789–1856 London)
- Subject: Priscilla Reed (British, Birmingham 1818–1895 Bexley Heath, Kent)
- Date: 1830–44
- Medium: Watercolor, pen and black ink, over graphite
- Dimensions: sheet: 8 9/16 x 6 13/16 in. (21.8 x 17.3 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1965
- Object Number: 65.551.4(6)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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