"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.
Not acted here these six years. By desire of several ladies and gentlemen. By his Majesty's servants
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., From a bound collection of playbills: [A collection of playbills for theatres in Kent, 1771-1784?]. [England], [between 1771 and 1784?]., and Numbered in ms.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Farquhar, George, 1677?-1707. and Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
Never acted here. By particular desire of several gentlemen of this city. By his Majesty's servants
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., and From a bound collection of playbills: [A collection of playbills for theatres in Kent, 1771-1784?]. [England], [between 1771 and 1784?].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cowley, Hannah, 1743-1809. and Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
Actors include Mr Carr, Mr Cummins, Mr Melvin, Mr Carleton, Mr Williams, Mr Bennett, Mr Knight, Mr Wood, Mr Woodham, Mr Hope, Mrs Carr, Miss Smith, Mrs Jarman, Mrs Elliott, Mrs Leng, Miss Mills., Playbill for a performance in York Theatre Royal on Thursday Evening, March 28, 1805., St Margaret's Cave., Waterman., Volunteers., 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
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
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
Caption title., A playbill., and From a bound collection of playbills: [Playbills from the Theatre-Royal, Bath, 1783-1815]. [Bath, England], [between 1783 and 1815].
Publisher:
Keenes, printers
Subject (Name):
Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811. and Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
Caption title., A playbill., and From a bound collection of playbills: [Playbills from the Theatre-Royal, Bath, 1783-1815]. [Bath, England], [between 1783 and 1815]. Mounted on page 109.
Publisher:
Keenes, printers
Subject (Name):
Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811. and Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
Caption title., A playbill., Place of publication from ms. note., From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]. Mounted on page 209., and Dated and annotated in ms.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
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.
Four characters participating in the quintet of the first act finale of Dibdin's "The Quaker" are shown here: Gillian and Floretta look over the garden wall while Steady attempts to keep Solomon from conversation with them
Alternative Title:
Scene in a farce called The Quaker
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,57.124., Plate dated "1783" in lower left corner., and Design includes portraits of the actors John Bannister and William Parsons. See British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814., Bannister, John, 1760-1836, and Parsons, William, 1736-1795
Volume 2, page 17. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 127. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A soldier standing leaning on his sword, looking with defiance at the woman and child pleading with him at left as two other soldiers escort her husband away at right, the family cottage behind at left and another woman sitting beside a spinning wheel with an expression of despair; after Bunbury, first published state before publication line altered."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Dickinson in the British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Illustration to Charles Dibdin's adaptation of the comic opera The deserter., Mounted on page 127 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; sheet 39.3 x 49.9 cm, and Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 1st, 1784, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
Subject (Topic):
Military deserters, Soldiers, Daggers & swords, Dwellings, Spinning apparatus, and Children
Volume 2, page 17. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 127. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A soldier standing leaning on his sword, looking with defiance at the woman and child pleading with him at left as two other soldiers escort her husband away at right, the family cottage behind at left and another woman sitting beside a spinning wheel with an expression of despair; after Bunbury, first published state before publication line altered."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Dickinson in the British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Illustration to Charles Dibdin's adaptation of the comic opera The deserter., and Mounted on page 17 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 1st, 1784, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
Subject (Topic):
Military deserters, Soldiers, Daggers & swords, Dwellings, Spinning apparatus, and Children
"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.
Theatre-Royal. Mr Wilkinson, patentee and manager of the Theatre-Royal, York, having kindly engaged to leave his own business, and come hither at this crisis, and perform a few nights, during Mr Digges's necessary absence from the stage
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., Place of publication assumed from note., and From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]. Mounted on page 212.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Young, Edward, 1683-1765. and Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
Caption title., At head of title: Many reasons having been communicated to the manager, in the most obliging and friendly manner, why he should desist from his proposed plan of a masquerade, advertised for Friday the 7th of March;--in obedience to what he deems the general sense of the public, he, without reluctance, sacrifices every prospect he might have of private advantage; and therefore gives this notice, (whatever may be his loss) that the design is drop'd. By particular desire., A playbill., Place of publication from ms. note., Date from manuscript notation., From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]. Mounted on page 215., and Dated and annotated in ms.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1628-1687. and Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
Theatre-Royal, Bath. The public are respectfully informed, that on account of a sudden, domestic calamity, Mr. Elliston's remaining performances are unavoidably postponed for a few days; and that Mr. Matthews & Mr. Incledon are engaged to perform three nights only
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., From a bound collection of playbills: [Playbills from the Theatre-Royal, Bath, 1783-1815]. [Bath, England], [between 1783 and 1815]., and Contemporary ms. note.
Publisher:
Keenes, Printers, 7, Kingsmead-Street
Subject (Name):
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814., Pocock, I. 1782-1835. (Isaac),, and Horn, Charles E. 1786-1849. (Charles Edward),
Theatre-Royal, Bath. The public are respectfully informed, that on account of a sudden domestic calamity, Mr. Elliston's remaining performances are unavoidably postponed for a few days; and that Mr. Matthews & Mr. Incledon are engaged to perform three nights only
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., and From a bound collection of playbills: [Playbills from the Theatre-Royal, Bath, 1783-1815]. [Bath, England], [between 1783 and 1815].
Publisher:
Keenes, Printers, 7, Kingsmead-Street
Subject (Name):
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814. and Horn, Charles E. 1786-1849. (Charles Edward),
Theatre-Royal, Bath. The public are respectfully informed, that on account of a sudden domestic calamity, Mr. Elliston's remaining performances are unavoidably postponed for a few days; and that Mr. Matthews & Mr. Incledon are engaged to perform three nights only
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., and From a bound collection of playbills: [Playbills from the Theatre-Royal, Bath, 1783-1815]. [Bath, England], [between 1783 and 1815]. Mounted on page 166.
Publisher:
Keenes, Printers, 7, Kingsmead-Street
Subject (Name):
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814. and Horn, Charles E. 1786-1849. (Charles Edward),
Theatre-Royal, Bath. Last night of Mr. Incledon's engagement
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., and From a bound collection of playbills: [Playbills from the Theatre-Royal, Bath, 1783-1815]. [Bath, England], [between 1783 and 1815].
Theatre-Royal, Bath. Last night of Mr. Incledon's engagement
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., and From a bound collection of playbills: [Playbills from the Theatre-Royal, Bath, 1783-1815]. [Bath, England], [between 1783 and 1815]. Mounted on page 118.
Caption title., A playbill., and From a bound collection of playbills: [Playbills from the Theatre-Royal, Bath, 1783-1815]. [Bath, England], [between 1783 and 1815]. Mounted on page 75.
Caption title., A playbill., and From a bound collection of playbills: [Playbills from the Theatre-Royal, Bath, 1783-1815]. [Bath, England], [between 1783 and 1815]. Mounted on page 119.
Publisher:
Keenes, Printers
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
