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12.
- Published / Created:
- [1814]
- Call Number:
- File 767 P69B C838 1814 5/25
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Caption title., A playbill., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- E. Macleish, printer, 2, Bow-Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787-1855., and Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, this present Wednesday, May 25, 1814, will be acted Shakspeare's tragedy of Julius Caesar ... : Brutus by Mr. Kemble ... to which will be added (25th time) a new grand Asiatick spectacle called Sadak & Kalasrade or, The waters of oblivion ...
13.
- Creator:
- De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [4 December 1807]
- Call Number:
- 807.12.04.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A four-footed monster, with four human heads, the long hairy body resembling that of a dog, stand in an open space in front of the theatres of Covent Garden (left) and Drury Lane (right), the latter partly obscured by clouds rising from the ground, and with the statue of Apollo, headless as in British Museum Satires No. 10764. The three main heads are those of Sheridan, saying "Ha, ha, ha," Kemble saying "Oh!!!!!", with a tragic expression, and of a clown (evidently Grimaldi) with painted face and blue wig, saying, "Nice Moon". A dagger is thrust into Kemble's neck, blood gushing from the wound. A fourth head wearing a mask, that of Harlequin, looks over the back of the monster, who wears a Harlequin coat over its fore-legs and the front part of its body. It has a long barbed tail inscribed 'A Tail of Mistery'. The monster's fore-paws rest on a paper: 'Regular Dramas Congreve Beaumont and Fletcher Colman' [attacked in British Museum Satires No. 5064, now a standard author]. A hind-foot rests on 'Shakespear's Works'. Under its body are a number of modern dramatists, some of whom suck from its many teats. They are portraits, and some are identified by the titles of plays by which they stand. On the left. Frederic Reynolds bestrides a large dog (Carlo) by 'The Caravan' [see British Museum Satires No. 10172, &c.]. A man sits on the shoulders of a monk with cloven hoofs in order to reach a teat; the monk (Lewis) stands on 'Wood Daemon' [a 'Grand Romantic Melo-Drama' by M. G. ('Monk') Lewis, first played at Drury Lane 1 Apr. 1807 (cf. British Museum Satires No. 10727)]. Holcroft, wearing spectacles (as in BMSat 9240), stands on the 'Road to Ruin' [see British Museum Satires No. 8073]. Skeffington, wearing long striped pantaloons, stands on his 'Sleeping Beauty' [see British Museum Satires No. 10455]. On the extreme right. Dimond, tall, thin, and foppish, stands on his 'Hunter of the Alps', played at the Haymarket in 1804. There are five other men, less prominent, and unidentified by inscriptions. Behind, an old man (or woman) drives a flock of geese past the arcade of Covent Garden Theatre."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from British Museum catalogue. and Plate from: The Satirist, v. 1, page 225.
- Publisher:
- Published for the Satirist, Decr. 4th, 1807, by S. Tipper, Leadenhall Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London
- Subject (Name):
- Covent Garden Theatre,, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823, Grimaldi, Joseph, 1779-1837, Grimaldi, Joseph, 1779-1837., Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823., and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
- Subject (Topic):
- Harlequin (Fictitious character), Monsters, Dramatists, Theaters, Daggers & swords, and Geese
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The monster melo-drama] [graphic]
14.
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1784]
- Call Number:
- Drawings D574 no. 12 Box D205
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A struggling crowd, partly within and partly without the pit door, a spiked gateway, of Drury Lane Theatre. Men, respectably dressed but of plebeian appearance, stand in the foreground on the outskirts of the crowd or fight their way in, some with sticks. There are a few women; one who has fainted but is in an erect position owing to the crowd, is being revived with smelling-salts. A man is vomiting. In the foreground two lady's hats, the ribbons partly torn off, lie on the ground with shoes and the broken fragments of a shoe-buckle. In the background two ladies and a man are passing through a narrow door into the theatre itself; through the doorway is seen a section of an upper gallery and boxes below it, both crowded. On the exterior wall, above the heads of the crowd, is a playbill ..."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the related print
- Alternative Title:
- Porte du parterre
- Description:
- Title from related print, which bears both the English title "The pit door" and the French title "La porte du parterre"., Unsigned and undated; artist attribution and approximate date from those assigned to the related print in the British Museum catalogue. See no. 6769 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6., Inscribed on poster in upper center portion of image: By Command of their MAJESTIES. At the Theatre Royal Drury Lane The Grecian Daughter And Euphrasia Mrs Siddons To which will be added The Devil to Pay Tomorrow the Tragedy of Hamlet HAMLET by MR KEMBLE., and Laid down on wove paper with watermark "B. E. & S."
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823., Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831., and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Theaters, Crowds, Gates, Doors & doorways, Vomiting, Loss of consciousness, and Signs (Notices)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The pit door] [art original].
