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1.
At the new theatre in Portsmouth, this present Friday, the 21st of August, will be presented a

Creator:
Portsmouth Theatre (Portsmouth, England)
Published / Created:
[1761]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B W65
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
By the Bath Company of Comedians and This present Friday, the 21st of August, will be presented a tragedy ...
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
New Theatre in Portsmouth
Subject (Name):
Lee, Nathaniel, 1653?-1692. and Colman, George, 1732-1794.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > At the new theatre in Portsmouth, this present Friday, the 21st of August, will be presented a tragedy, call'd The rival queens: or Alexander the Great ... : to which (by desire) will be added a farce call'd Polly Honeycomb ... tickets to be had at the Fountain ... and at the India Arms in Gosport. N.B. The whole performance will be over at half an hour past ten

2.
At the new theatre in Portsmouth, this present Tuesday, being the 21st of July, will be presented a

Creator:
Portsmouth Theatre (Portsmouth, England)
Published / Created:
[1761]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B W65
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
By the Bath company of comedians and This present Tuesday, being the 21st of July, will be presented a comedy
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
New Theatre in Portsmouth
Subject (Name):
Vanbrugh, John, 1664-1726. and Colman, George, 1732-1794.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > At the new theatre in Portsmouth, this present Tuesday, being the 21st of July, will be presented a comedy, call'd The provok'd husband: or A journey to London... : to which will be added a farce, (never acted here) call'd Polly Honeycomb...tickets to be had at the Fountain...and the Wheat Sheaf on the Common

3.
At the new theatre in Portsmouth. On Monday evening, September 7th, will be presented a tragedy

Creator:
Portsmouth Theatre (Portsmouth, England)
Published / Created:
[1761]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B W65
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
(Not acted here these ten years.) For the benefit of Mrs. Sherriffe and On Monday evening, September 7th, will be presented a tragedy, call'd Merope ...
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
New Theatre in Portsmouth
Subject (Name):
Hill, Aaron, 1685-1750. and Colman, George, 1732-1794.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > At the new theatre in Portsmouth. On Monday evening, September 7th, will be presented a tragedy, call'd Merope (as translated from the French of Voltaire, by Aaron Hill, Esq.) ... : to which will be added a farce, call'd, Polly Honeycomb ... tickets to be had at the Fountain ... and of Mrs. Sherriffe, at Mr. Earl's, in Bates's buildings, near Key Gate

4.
By Desire of the Right Hon. Lord Ribblesdale, the Officers, and Corps of the Craven Legion. For the

Creator:
Theatre Royal (York, England)
Published / Created:
[1805]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B Y82
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Actors include Mr Cummins, Mr Williams, Mr Knight, Mr Melvin, Mr Carleton, Mr Hope, Mr Carr, Miss Smith, Mrs Barnard, Mrs Cummins, Mrs Williams, Miss Mills, Mrs Knight, Mrs Jarman.
Publisher:
W. Storry, printer, York
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and York.
Subject (Name):
Cowley, Hannah, 1743-1809. and Colman, George, 1732-1794.
Subject (Topic):
Playbills
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > By Desire of the Right Hon. Lord Ribblesdale, the Officers, and Corps of the Craven Legion. For the Benefit of Miss Smith. Theatre-Royal, York. On Saturday Evening, May 11th, 1805, their Majesties Servants will perform a favourite Comedy, call'd a Bold Stroke for a Husband ... Giles Scroggin's Ghost, by Mr. Bennett. An Epilogue ... by Miss Elliott. A Song, by Mr. Woodham. To which will be added a farce called The Deuce is in Him

5.
By a company of comedians, at the theatre in Canterbury, this evening, July 31, will be presented

Published / Created:
[1772?]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B K41
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
Printed by T. Smith and Son
Subject (Name):
Colman, George, 1732-1794. and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > By a company of comedians, at the theatre in Canterbury, this evening, July 31, will be presented The jealous wife ... : to which will be added, Lethe: or, Aesop in the shades ...

6.
By a company of comedians, at the theatre in the city of Canterbury, this present evening the 22d

Published / Created:
[1772]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B K41
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
By desire of the gentlemen, officers of the Queen's dragoon's
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Colman, George, 1732-1794., Garrick, David, 1717-1779., and Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > By a company of comedians, at the theatre in the city of Canterbury, this present evening the 22d of January, 1772, will be presented, The clandestine marriage ... : to which (by desire) will be added, The citizen ...

7.
By desire of her highness the Princess d'Aschkoff, on Saturday next the 15th of February, will be

Published / Created:
[1777]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B W65
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Theatre-Royal. Mr Wilkinson, patentee and manager of the Theatre-Royal, York, has 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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Colman, George, 1732-1794., Garrick, David, 1717-1779., and Macklin, Charles, 1697?-1797.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > By desire of her highness the Princess d'Aschkoff, on Saturday next the 15th of February, will be presented, the comedy of The clandestine marriage ... : to which will be added, Love a-la-mode ...

8.
By their Majesties servants from the Theatres Royal, at the Theatre in Canterbury, on Thursday

Published / Created:
[1771]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B K41
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Not acted this season. For the benefit of Mrs. Dyer
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718., Colman, George, 1732-1794., and Hill, Aaron, 1685-1750.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > By their Majesties servants from the Theatres Royal, at the Theatre in Canterbury, on Thursday August 29, 1771, will be performed, the historical tragedy of Jane Shore ... : to which will be added a farce, never performed here, called The duce is in him ... on Friday, August 30, The tragedy of Zara

9.
For the benefit of Miss Young at the New Theatre in King-Street, this present evening, being the

Creator:
New Theatre (Birmingham, England)
Published / Created:
[1760?]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B W65
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
New Theatre in King-Street
Subject (Name):
Colman, George, 1732-1794. and Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > For the benefit of Miss Young at the New Theatre in King-Street, this present evening, being the 16th of this instant July, will be perform'd a concert of music ... between the several parts of the concert will be presented (gratis) by a company of comedians from the Theatres-Royal in London, a masque, (not acted here these sixteen years) call'd Comus ... : to which will be added a farce, (never perform'd here) call'd The knights from the land's end ...

10.
George Colman, Esq. from an original picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds, in the possession of the Earl

Creator:
Scriven, Edward, 1775-1841, printmaker
Published / Created:
[8 March 1813]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 396); half-length, sitting, turned and eyes to the left, his right hand tucked inside the breast of his coat, left elbow leaning on papers on a table beside him, left cheek resting on left hand."--British Museum onli...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published March 8, 1813, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Subject (Name):
Colman, George, 1732-1794, and Colman, George, 1732-1794.
Subject (Topic):
Dramatists
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > George Colman, Esq. from an original picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds, in the possession of the Earl of Mulgrave / [graphic]