For the benefit of Mr. Cartwright and Mrs. Vandersluys
Description:
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 10.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Jones, Henry, 1721-1770. and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Caption title., A playbill., From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]., and Dated in ms.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Home, John, 1722-1808. and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
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 39., and Dated in ms.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Home, John, 1722-1808. and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Caption title., A playbill., From a bound collection of playbills: [Playbills from Exeter and Lyme Regis, 1784-1786.]. [England], [between 1784 and 1786]., and Numbered in ms.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of serious and comic poems dated 1778-1780. The manuscript includes two poems based on Oliver Goldsmith's "Hermit," English translations of poems by Bacchylides, an "Epistle to a Lady, with a present of Moor Fowl," an "Elegy on Virtue," a "Sonnet, written in Evelina, and addressed to the Ladies," and numerous occasional verses, such as an "Ode on the death of a favourite bird," an elegy addressed to James Beattie, and an ode to David Garrick
Description:
In English., Laid in: two pages from a poem incomplete at beginning and end, a 3-page poem titled "To Rosetta," and one page containing 3 poems in the same hand., and Binding: quarter morocco.
"Scene of the dual from David Garrick's play 'Miss in her Teens'; two men duelling, behind them two women berate the fighting men, the lady on the left claims "On my words he is a bully", and the lady on the right addressing the man on the right claims "Is all your fury gone Mr Flash"; all whole length."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Modern duel
Description:
Title etched below image., Added title from British Museum catalogue: The modern duel. (No. 3)., Publication information from the the magazine in which this plate appeared., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate from: The London magazine, or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : Printed for R. Baldwin, 1747, v.1, p. 200., and Mounted to 23 x 29 cm.
