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By the 1820s they had become more elaborate and sometimes embossed, and within a decade both the printing and embossing processes were automated. The scraps were colour printed by chromolithography, then coated with a gelatine and gum layer to give a gloss finish. After being embossed they were die-cut and put through a stamping press to cut away the unwanted areas of paper, leaving the individual images connected by small strips, often bearing the name or initials of the maker.\r\n\r\nIn Victorian England scraps were popular with adults and children. They would be cut out and pasted into albums, or used to decorate greetings cards and to embellish screens and other household items. This scrap is one of a set of twelve produced by Siegmund Hildesheimer & Company depicting Shakespearean characters played by popular actors. They were sold in packs costing one shilling, titled <i>Characters from Shakespeare. A Series of Twelve Relief Scraps</i>. David Garrick first played King Lear in London at Goodman's Fields Theatre in a production which opened on 28 May 1742, but not with Miss Younge as Cordelia.","physicalDescription":"Multicoloured paper scrap with printed lines of text, depicting David Garrick as King Lear and Miss Younge as Cordelia in <i>King Lear</i>, Act IV scene 7. Lear, in an ermine-trimmed robe. lies on a bed. Cordelia, standing, leans over him. Chromolithograph printed by Siegmund Hildesheimer & Co., ca.1890, with the monogram of Siegmund Hildesheimer & Co. and the number 435. On a tab, left, is the title 'CHARACTERS FROM SHAKESPEARE. 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As the craze developed, printers produced die-cut scraps, specially made to be cut out and pasted into books or used for decoration on household items like screens or trays. This is one of a series showing famous actors in Shakespearean roles.","date":{"text":"2024","earliest":"2024-01-01","latest":"2024-12-31"}}],"partNumbers":["S.149-2008"],"accessionNumberNum":"149","accessionNumberPrefix":"S","accessionYear":2008,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"BTMA accession number","id":"THES51752"},"number":"1973/A/119"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-16","recordCreationDate":"2009-07-30","availableToBook":false}}