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 83.
Publisher:
Printed at Keenes' Bath Journal Office, 7, Kingsmead-Street
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of poems, including numerous occasional verses addressed to friends, family members, and their children. Titles include "Ode to the Ship, in which Mr. F J. H. Wollaston sails," "A Lilliputian Ode, on my little Friend, Richard Burney, putting on Breeches," "Buxom Het, an excellent new song to an old Tune: a Soldier & a Sailor, a Tinker & a Tailor, etc., made on Mrs. Esther Burney," and "Occasional Prologue to the Good Natured Man, a Comedy; when acted by Ladies and Gentlemen for their diversion."
Description:
Incomplete index in back of manuscript., Laid in: poem, in same hand, titled "To my little friend Charles Wollaston, on his being put into Breeches.", and Binding: boards, vellum spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burney, Charles, 1757-1817., Burney family., Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774., and Wollaston, Francis John Hyde, 1762-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Children, Drama, English literature, English poetry, Occasional verse, and Social life and customs
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.
Title from text below image., Text above design: Frontspiece to the European Magazine volume 43., One line of topographical prose preceding title: A house the corner of Break-neck stairs, Greene Harbour Court, Old Bailey., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Lighting: Lamp -- Laundresses -- Clothes: Horses -- Signs: Chimney sweeps -- Street scenes --Old Bailey: Green Harb our Court, Break-neck stairs -- Allusion to Oliver Goldsmith, 1728-1774.
Publisher:
Publsih'd by J. Asperne, successor to the late Mr. Sewell, Cornhill
Volume 2, page 53. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Interior scene in a tavern, at left a woman rasies a large tankard to her lips, the man sitting near her with his hand around her waist, another customer sitting beside them encourages her to take a drink, a cigar(?) in his hand, behind a woman bends down to tend to the fire, across the room at right a patron sits reading from a newspaper, a smartly dressed man with a lantern(?) in hand standing beside him, another in labourers clothes leans on the back of his chair at right; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Eight lines of verse below image, four on either side of title: verse: No more the farmer's news, the barbers tale, no more, the woodman's ballad shall prevail, no more the smith his duskey brow shall clear, relax his pond'rous strength, and lean to hear; the host himself, no longer shall be found, carefull to see the mantling bliss go round; nor the coy maid, half willing to be press'd, shall kiss the cup, and pass it to the rest. Goldsmith., Illustration to Oliver Goldsmith's poem 'The deserted village'., and Mounted on page 53 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published April 7th, 1787, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774.
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Taverns (Inns), Drinking vessels, and Newspapers
Never performed here. By particular desire, for the benefit of Mr. Johnston. By their majesties servants, from the Theatre Royal, in Drury-Lane, London. At the theatre in Canterbury
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., From a bound collection of playbills: [A collection of playbills for theatres in Kent, 1771-1784?]. [England], [between 1771 and 1784?]., and Numbered in ms.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774. and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
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 110.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774. and O'Keeffe, John, 1747-1833.
Theatre-Royal, Bath. The public are respectfully informed, that Mr. Blissett is engaged to perform occasionally for a few nights in the course of the season
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].
Publisher:
Printed at Keenes Bath Journal Office, Kingsmead-Street
Subject (Name):
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774. and Kemble, Charles, 1775-1854.
