The stage of a theatre, with halters suspended over three managers of theatres; the labels issuing from the mouths of these persons have characteristic words. Wilks dangles Punch. The Laureat Cibber dangles Harlequin and invokes the Muses. Booth letting down the image of Jack Hall basphems: "Ha this will do G-d D- me". On the table before the speakers is a pamphlet with a print of Jack Shepard. Ben Jonson's ghost, holding a lit candle, rises to the stage on the left. In Horace Walpole's catalog, this print is referred to as "Booth, Wilks and Cibber contriving a pantomime, a satire on farces."
Alternative Title:
Three heads are better than one
Description:
Title etched above image., State, publisher, and date from Paulson., "Price six pence".--Lower right corner., Caption below image: This print represents the rehearsing a new farce that will include [the] two famous entertainments Dr. Faustus & Harlequin Shepherd to wch. will be added Scaramouch Jack Hall the chimney-sweeper's escape from Newgate through [the] privy ... [Signed] Vivat Rex., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757., Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637., Thurmond, John, active 1724-1749., and Wilks, Robert, 1665?-1732.
The stage of a theatre, with halters suspended over three managers of theatres; the labels issuing from the mouths of these persons have characteristic words. Wilks dangles Punch. The Laureat Cibber dangles Harlequin and invokes the Muses. Booth letting down the image of Jack Hall basphems: "Ha this will do G-d D- me". On the table before the speakers is a pamphlet with a print of Jack Shepard. Ben Jonson's ghost, holding a lit candle, rises to the stage on the left. In Horace Walpole's catalog, this print is referred to as "Booth, Wilks and Cibber contriving a pantomime, a satire on farces."
Alternative Title:
Three heads are better than one
Description:
Title etched above image., State, publisher, and date from Paulson., "Price six pence".--Lower right corner., First state of the print with motto in banner at top of image misspelled: "Vivetur ingenio"., Caption below image: This print represents the rehearsing a new farce that will include [the] two famous entertainments Dr. Faustus & Harlequin Shepherd to wch. will be added Scaramouch Jack Hall the chimney-sweeper's escape from Newgate through [the] privy ... [Signed] Vivat Rex., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On page 22 in volume 1., Ms. note in pen in Steevens's hand below: Booth, Wilks and Colley Cibber., and Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand below: See Nichols Book 3d ed p. 143.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757., Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637., Thurmond, John, active 1724-1749., and Wilks, Robert, 1665?-1732.
"Portrait of Ben Jonson, bust seen in profile to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a draped coat; in an ornamental oval decorated with roses and laurel; below a young satyr holding a sceptre with a fool's head; books and a theatrical mask in lower right; state with publisher's address."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ben Jonson
Description:
Title from text in image., Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751]., "In the collection of Dr. Mead"--Below image. The note refers to the miniature by Oliver from which this engraving was made., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 28 (leaf numbered '86' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Impensis I. & P. Knapton Londini
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637,, Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637., and Mead, Richard, 1673-1754
Print shows actor David Garrick in the role of Kitely from the play "Every Man in his Humour" by Ben Jonson, half-length portrait, facing left, in costume
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1902,1011.2088., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 116 (leaf numbered '167' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Sold by Mr. Parker, No. 82 Cornhill, & Mr. Finlayson in Berwick Street, Soho
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779,, Garrick, David, 1717-1779, and Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.
