For the benefit of Mrs. Lee and On Friday evening, September 18th, will be presented a tragedy, call'd Tancred and Sigismunda ...
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., 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 92., and Dated in ms.
Publisher:
New Theatre in Portsmouth
Subject (Name):
Thomson, James, 1700-1748. and Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777.
An admission ticket to a performance at Dalby Theatre 14 July 1803, the private playhouse of Edward Hartopp at his seat Little Dalby Hall in Leicestershire. Edward Hartopp's private theatricals seem to have been staged sporadically from 1777, becoming larger and more elaborate at the beginning of the nineteenth century
Description:
For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and Leicestershire.
Subject (Name):
Hartopp, Edward, 1758-1808. and Thomson, James, 1700-1748.
In a rural setting, a young man and woman stand in a wheat field under at tree. They are holding hands, while he recites lines to her. She holds a bundle of wheat in her apron
Description:
Title from item., Numbered '177' in lower right corner of plate., and Caption below the image from James Thomson's The seasons: "And art thou then Acasto's dear remains? She whom my restless gratitude has sought, So long in vain, O Heav'ns! the very frame. The soften'd image of my noble friend."
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
English.
Subject (Name):
Thomson, James, 1700-1748 and Thomson, James, 1700-1748.
Theatre-Royal Bath. Master Betty, the young Roscius. The public are respectfully informed, that Master Betty is engaged to perform a fortnight at this theatre, in some of his principal characters, previous to his finally retiring from the stage
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 40.
Publisher:
Ann Keene, printer, Kingsmead-Street, Bath
Subject (Name):
Thomson, James, 1700-1748. and Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809.
Caption title., A playbill., and From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]. Mounted on page 168.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Thomson, James, 1700-1748. and Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805.
Plate [186] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; portrait medallions Pattison, Congreave, Gay, Pope, Swift and Thomson on a monolith, at the foot of which a nymph sits holding a jester's staff, watched by a faun climbing over the top."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Plate [186] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
