"Sheridan leads the forces of the professionals against the amateurs of the Pic Nic Society, who are performing on a small, elegant stage, rising (without orchestra) from the boards in the foreground where these enemies advance. He is dressed as Harle...
Alternative Title:
Harlequin Quixotte attacking the puppets
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 2d, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823, Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818, Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831, Lewis, William Thomas, 1746?-1812, Garrick, David, 1717-1779, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, and Mount Edgcumbe, Richard Edgcumbe, Earl of, 1764-1839
"A crowded scene, the amateurs of the Pic Nic Society are dressing and rehearsing. The design may derive from Hogarth's 'Actresses dressing in a Barn' (BMSat 2403), Gillray stressing the contrast between his luxurious mise-en-scène and the squalor of...
Alternative Title:
Peep at the green room
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 18th, 1803, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, Mount Edgcumbe, Richard Edgcumbe, Earl of, 1764-1839, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Salisbury, James Cecil, Marquess of, 1748-1823, Abercorn, John James Hamilton, Marquess of, 1756-1818, Skeffington, Lumley St. George, Sir, 1771-1850, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Jersey, Frances Villiers, Countess of, 1753-1821, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Queensberry, William Douglas, Duke of, 1725-1810, and Hanger, George, 1751?-1824
"Musicians are grouped round the almost spherical Lady Buckinghamshire, who sits at the piano in profile to the right, playing and singing. In back view and on the extreme right sits Colonel Greville, playing a fiddle; from his coat pocket hangs a pap...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 23d, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Cecil, Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1750-1835, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, and Mount Edgcumbe, Richard Edgcumbe, Earl of, 1764-1839
