Above the engraved poem, an illlustration shows an angry-faced Jove seated in the clouds surrounded by gods and goddesses including Apollo, seated with his lyre and Momus in a hester's cap with bells. Jove holds a fist full of thunderbolts as he glares at the petition at his feet. In the background is a circular temple ablaze with rays of light. Above Pegasus leaps from Mount Helicon
Description:
Title from item., After Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., and "The constitutional song of the Anacreontic Society, sung by the Chairman or his deputy after the supper which followed the fortnightly concert." See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Music, Societies, etc.--, Gods, Greek, and Petitions
Engraved caption title from page 2. Page 1 blank., Date based on watermark., "Price 1 s/-"., Staff notation., and Disbound; paper watermarked ‘1805’. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed & sold by Preston, at his wholesale Warehouse, 97, Strand
Subject (Name):
Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805 and Incledon, Charles Benjamin, 1763-1826.
Caption title in letterpress below image., Letterpress broadside song illustrated with etching (design 15.5 x 25 cm) at top of sheet. Title on plate: "Totus mundus agit histrionem." Signed in lower right corner: Tho. Booth sculp., Dated by Stephens 1725 from the British Museum impression that lacks the song and imprint., Sheet trimmed close to design and letterpress resulting in minor loss of title., "To the tune of Gossip Joan.", Sixteen stanzas of song in three columns below title: Ye peers, ye cits and beaux who haunt pit, box and gall'ry ..., Describes a fight between two actresses, Kitty Clive and Peg Woffington, which took place in 1746 when Henry IV was performed at Drury Lane, as related by Thomas Davies in his Dramatic miscellanies, 1784, v. 1, p. 231-3. The subjects in the print were identified by Horace Walpole (1717-1797) in his copy of Davies' Miscellanies., Temporary local subject terms: Theaters: Green Room, Drury Lane -- Actors: Owen MacSwinney and James Raftor., and Mounted to 38 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd persuant to act of Parliament, Jan. 29, 1746, by G. Foster on Ludgate-Hill, and sold at the print and pamphlet shop in London and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, Woffington, Margaret, -1760, and Barry, Spranger, 1719-1777
Date of publication supplied by cataloger., Verse begins: "You mortals all who deal unjust,"., In four columns with the title above the first two and the imprint below the fourth column; the columns are separated by rules of ornamental type., Mounted on leaf 32. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at the Printing offices, Stonecutter Street, Fleet Market
Subject (Geographic):
London (England)
Subject (Topic):
Incest, Fathers and daughters, Pregnancy, Apprentices, and Social life and customs
"A fashionably dressed man (left) regards apprehensively a young woman (right) who holds out her fists as if sparring; he makes as if to depart. Both have Jewish features and curling hair. On the wall are three boxing pictures: 'The Game Chicken', half length, flanked by men sparring. The Jew relates with Jewish pronunciation his attempts to find a wife. Miss Devy jilted him, Miss Rachel's father sold watches and rings: 'And dere vas nothing to do but buy de ring out of her fader's shop - but ve couldn't agree about de price . . .' Then Miss Moses: 'Her Broder vash mighty rich, and got money in de shtocks, He vashn't so vulgar to get it by trade, but taught de great people to spa and to box.'"--British Museum online catalogue
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Title engraved below image., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls; plate numbered in lower left corner: 434., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Fourty-three lines of verse arranged in two columns below image: First, dere vash Miss Devy, pretty Miss Devy ..., and Watermark: Ivy Mill 1812.
Publisher:
Publish'd Augt. 12, 1806, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Date of publication from ESTC., A song - "Young virgins fair, of beauty bright ----"., In four columns with the title above the first two and the imprint below the last column; the columns are not separated by rules. In 2 parts., Mounted on leaf 61. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Caption titles., Two slip songs printed on one sheet, in two columns, each titled separately and with a woodcut above., Printer's statement from first column. Additional printer's statements in second column: Printed & sold by J. Pitts, 6, Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials ; Pitts, wholesale toy warehouse., On the return of Queen Caroline to England in 1820., In verse., First line of "The Queen of the Isles": O haste, Caroline, jaste, o'er the wide water ..., First line of "The royal wanderer": O say, ye virgins, have ye seen ..., and Laid on to stiff blue paper. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
J. Pitts, printer and toy warehouse, 6, Grea[t] St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Caption title., In verse; without the music., First line: Spite the detraction, fraud, and spleen ..., "Price one penny"--Below imprint., Thirteen lines of advertisements for further Fairburn publication printed at bottom of sheet, including a second imprint statement identical to the one above., and Edge mounted on upper half of the sheet. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and published by John Fairburn, 2, Broadway, Ludgate-Hill
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Caption title., In verse; without the music., First line: Spite the detraction, fraud, and spleen ..., "Price one penny."--Below imprint., Twenty-three lines of advertisements printed at bottom of sheet, including a second imprint statement identical to the one above., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and published by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate-Hill
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
