Melopoyn (a distressed poet) and the manager [graphic]

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Title: Melopoyn (a distressed poet) and the manager [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Sibbald, J. 1745-1803, publisher.
Published / Created: July 27, 1793.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs by J. Sibbald
Abstract: "Melopoyn, a gaunt, black-clad figure, standing at left by a table covered with sheaves of paper, at which sits a theatre manager to whom he has submitted a play for consideration, who gestures emptily at him; illustration to Tobias Smollett, 'The Adventures of Roderick Random' (London, 1793), Vol. 2. 1793."--British museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Illustration to: Adventures of Roderick Random. Possibly from: Illustrations by Rowlandson to Smollett's Works. Cf. British Art Center ND497.R78 I45 1799.
Placement directions in upper right corner of plate: v. 2, p. 112.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted to 20 x 27cm.
Provenance: Suckling; July 1957.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 11 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1793
Book illustrations England 1793
Etchings England London 1793
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Bookcases
Fireplaces
Interiors
Parlors
Subjects: Bookcases
Fireplaces
Interiors
Parlors
England > 1793
England > London > 1793

Access: Public
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