This playbill records a performance at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden of The constant couple by George Farquhar (1676-1707) on 22 May 1755 in which Margaret Woffington (1720?-1760) played the leading part of Sir Harry Wildair - one of the roles for which she was most celebrated. The part of Lady Lurewell was performed by Esther Hamilton (d. 1787). Other actors in the cast include Theophilus Cibber (1703-1758) and John Arthur (1708?-1772), actor and stage designer -- it is likely that he was responsible for devising the “machinery” mentioned in a note at the foot of the sheet: “as any obstruction in the movement of the machinery will greatly prejudice the performance of the entertainment, it is hoped no persons will be displeased as their being refus'd admittance behind the scene.”
Description:
A playbill. and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Farquhar, George, 1677?-1707., Woffington, Margaret, -1760., and Covent Garden Theatre.
Title from caption below image., Printmaker and publication from volume., and Plate from: Historical and literary curiosities: consisting of fac-similes of original documents ... / selected and engraved by Charles John Smith. London: Henry G. Bohn ..., 1840.
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed., and Subjects of the prints dentified as Earl of Loudon and Margaret Woffington. See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published by A. Hamilton Junr ...
Subject (Name):
Loudon, John Campbell, Earl of, 1705-1782. and Woffington, Margaret, -1760.
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
"A young woman, three-quarter length, sitting at a table, directed to right, wearing jewels in her hair, a portrait on a ribbon around her wrist, and a fur tippet, right hand holding a quill, resting on a sheaf of papers, left elbow on a box on the table, the hand supporting her head, looking dreamily to right, lit by a table lamp to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Publication date inferred from dates of business of publishers., Sitter identified in an unverified card catalog record as Peg Woffington., Not in J.C. Smith's British mezzotinto portraits. London : Henry Sotheran & Co., 1883., Temporary local subject terms: Female dress, ca. 1755 -- Lighting: lamp -- Writing implements: inkwell -- Miniatures worn as jewelry., and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Sold by Edwd. Fisher in Leicester Fields & by Ryland & Bryer in Cornhill
Title from caption above image., Temporary local subject terms: London: Covent Garden Piazza -- Pools -- Harlequin -- Playbills -- Signs: "Coffee tea" -- Petitions: petition of actors' grievances, 1743 -- Wages in theater: dispute over wages between actors and managers -- Inflated bladders with signs of characters in plays -- Henry Giffard, d. 1743 -- Richard Winstone, d. 1787 -- Turbutt, d.1740 -- Cashill or Cashel, d. 1748., and Lower left corner of sheet missing.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, Octobr. 24th 1743 by G. Foster at the White Horse on Ludgate Hill
