Performed at a little theatre with great applause [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Performed at a little theatre with great applause [graphic]
- Creator
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Contributor
- Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792, publisher.
- Published / Created
- 16th July 1786.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Published by Thos. Cornell
- Abstract
-
"Two actresses in a prison scene from Gay's 'Beggar's Opera'. At their feet is a tombstone inscribed 'The Beggars Opera Captn Macheath by Mrs E . . . [erased]', 'Lucy by Mrs W . . . [erased]'; other erasures are followed by '"Here lies Gay"'. They are identified by Mr. Hawkins as Mrs. Edwards and Mrs. Webb. Macheath (right), in leg-irons and fashionably dressed, wearing a cocked hat and top-boots, the tight riding-dress showing a feminine figure with ample curves, stands with his hands raised as if singing. Beside and behind him stands Lucy, listening, with her hands on her hips. She is stout and middle-aged, a head taller than Macheath, and resembles Mrs. Peachum more than Lucy. In the background is a barred window (right). Across the top of the design is etched 'Motto for the Manager', and (on a scroll) '"Reddere personae scit convenientia cuique" Hor'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
1 print : etching with engraving on wove paper ; plate mark 25.2 x 20.7 cm, on sheet 27.2 x 22.4 cm.
Mounted on verso of leaf 32 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures. - Provenance
- Bequeathed by James Sayers to his sister and later given to Lord Eldon. Purchased from Christie's sale of Fine Books and Manuscripts, lot 305, 19 June 2012, with Lord Eldon's notebook (now LWL Mss Vol. 202).
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 25.3 x 21 cm, on sheet 28 x 31 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Collection Title
- Verso of leaf 32. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
- Collection Date
- [London], [between 1782 and 1810]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Etchings England London 1786 - Material
- etching with engraving ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- England
- Subject (Name)
-
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Edwards, Mrs.
Wilmot, Mrs., active 1788-1812. - Subject (Topic)
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Actors and actresses
English
Clothing & dress
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Prisons
Cells (Rooms & spaces) - Subjects
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Gay, John, 1685-1732
Edwards, Mrs
Wilmot, Mrs., active 1788-1812
Actors and actresses > English
Clothing & dress > England > 1780-1790
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Prisons
Cells (Rooms & spaces)
England > 1786
England > London > 1786
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 7738768
- Object ID (OID)
- 16819325