"Dibdin stands smiling beside a harpsichord (left) directed to the left, and leaning slightly forward, left hand extended. In his right is a paper inscribed 'Oddities Wags'. On each side of the harpsichord is a tripod supporting a lighted candle-sconce. He is giving a musical entertainment. In the text he is ridiculed as Petronius Broadgrin, noted for consummate effrontery, and he is recommended the works of Joe Miller as a repertory of jokes. Below the title: 'Wags have at ye.'"--British Museum online catalogue and A description of Dibdin's musical entertainments, Oddities and The Wags
Alternative Title:
Oddity wags have at ye
Description:
Title etched above image. Above title: Attic miscellany., Caricatures published under the pseudonym Annibal Scratch have been attributed to Samuel Collings., For another state published under different title, see: Marmaduke Momus., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Attic miscellany, v. ii, page 197., and Mounted to 27 x 20 cm.
"Dibdin stands smiling beside a harpsichord (left) directed to the left, and leaning slightly forward, left hand extended. In his right is a paper inscribed 'Oddities Wags'. On each side of the harpsichord is a tripod supporting a lighted candle-sconce. He is giving a musical entertainment. In the text he is ridiculed as Petronius Broadgrin, noted for consummate effrontery, and he is recommended the works of Joe Miller as a repertory of jokes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker from original issue, published by Bentley & Co., March 1, 1791, for the Attic Miscellany, under title, A Musico-Oratorical Portrait., Above image: Engraved for the Carlton House Magazine., Plate from: Carlton House magazine, September 1794., Another state, with different title. Cf. No. 7953 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Clipping of a fictitious letter to the editor of the Carlton House Magazine from "Dollabella" pasted on verso.
Volume 2, page 87. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman standing to right waving farewell to a figure escorted by two soldiers, in the distance at right, at left the corner of a building and part of a tree trunk with broken branch; oval design, after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse below title: What so tender, at parting, he told me, which such joy, to my bosom convey'd, when next he was doom'd to behold me, cou'd I think of being this way repaid., Illustration to Charles Dibdin's adaptation of the comic opera The deserter., and Mounted on page 87 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd 24th Feby. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Name):
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
Subject (Topic):
Military deserters, Farewells, Soldiers, and Tree trunks
Volume 2, page 87. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A girl sitting beside a spinning wheel outside a cottage, with expression of lament, a ship on the sea behind at right; oval design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Four lines of verse below title: Young Jemmy lov'd me well, & sought me for his bride, but saving a crown he had naething else beside; to mak' that crown a pund, my Jemmy gade to sea, and the crown & the pund were bath for me., Illustration to Charles Dibdin's adaptation of the comic opera The deserter., and Mounted on page 87 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published 24th Feby. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Playbill for a performance in York Theatre Royal on Thursday 20th February, 1800., Quaker., and From a bound collection of playbills: [Playbills from theatres in York, England]. [England], [1789-1805].
Publisher:
T. Wilson and R. Spence, Printers, High Ousegate, York
Subject (Name):
Morton, Thomas, 1764-1838. and Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
