Imitations at Drury-Lane Theatre

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Title: Imitations at Drury-Lane Theatre
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Jackson, Elizabeth, active 1785-1788, publisher.
Collings, Samuel, artist.
Published / Created: [20 June 1786]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd 20 June, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14, Marylebone Street, Golden Square
Abstract: "The pit of a theatre: Boswell stands in the centre of the front row behind a row of spikes, emitting a blast from his mouth, putting his hands on his cheeks. The man next him (right) protects his face with his hat; two men on the left are amused, one claps. Behind him are several rows of laughing heads. Two musicians in the foreground turn their heads."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See British Museum catalogue, v. 6, page 345.
Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, part the second. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786]
Two lines of verse below title: "A great many years ago, when Dr. Hugh Blair & I were sitting together in the pit of Drury-Lane Play-house, in a wild freak of youthful extravagance, I entertained the audience prodigiously, by imitating the lowing of a cow ..." Vide Journal p. 499.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Post-boy.
In mss. in lower left corner: E-161.
Provenance: Daniell; October 1962;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 249 x 277 mm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Illustrations
Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Etchings England London 1786
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Boswell, James, 1740-1795
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Subjects: Boswell, James, 1740-1795 > Caricatures and cartoons
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 > Illustrations
England > 1786
England > London > 1786
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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