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1. A scene from Don Giovanni as perform'd at the Kings Theatre [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [23 July 1820]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Page 20. George Humphrey shop album.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Print showing George IV, in the title role of Mozart's opera, surprised by the sudden arrival of his wife, Caroline, as Donna Anna, lately returned from Italy, during the wedding feast scene, at which a number of bare breasted women are present; on the left, Lord Castlereagh, playing the role of Leporello, holds a long list of the King's female conquests."--Library of Congress online catalog
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Text below title: Don Giovanni by His M-y, Donna Anna by a celebrated actress, her first appearance on this stage these 7 years, Leporello by Derry Down Triangle, the other caricters [sic] by the Corps de Ballet., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on page 20 of: George Humphrey shop album.
- Publisher:
- Pub. July 23, 1820, by H. Fores, 16 Panton St.
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, and Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
- Subject (Topic):
- Operas & operettas, Adultery, Surprise, Banquets, Dining tables, and Chandeliers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A scene from Don Giovanni as perform'd at the Kings Theatre [graphic].
2. Madame Vestris as Don Giovani [art original]
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1828?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings C697 no. 3 Box D115
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- One of a collection of four similar images; the other three images are titled: Mr. Kean as Othello; Miss Hargraves as Amy; Miss Bartolozzi as the page in The marriage of Figaro. Formerly part of an album (now lost), each on the same size sheet but different colors and attributed to different artists. Annotations in red ink are by the same hand. Presumably these collages, made using the same farbics, were made by friends and exchanged as gifts. In this collage a full-length image of a woman, identified as Miss Vestris: her head and neck, arms, and boots have been cut from an unidentifed print or prints while her costume and hat and their trimming are cut from satin cloth with additional decorated paper trimming. On the verso written in red ink, two poems: "The Snow Drop by Henry Neele" and "I Saw Thee Weep, Byron" transcribed in two columns
- Alternative Title:
- Madame Vestris as Don Giovanni
- Description:
- Title written at bottom of sheet., Signed with initials in lower right corner; artist "H.A.S" is unidentified., Date of production from recipient's note on the verso of one of the collages and other internal evidence., and The poem on verso "The Snow Drop" in the Oriental Herald and Journal of General Literature, volume 16, page 502 and signed "W. B." Also published in May 1828 in the The Ariel: A literary and cricial gazette (Philadelphia), vol. 2. no.1.
- Subject (Name):
- Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi, 1797-1856,, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791., and Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838.
- Subject (Topic):
- Characters, Actresses, British, and Operas & operettas
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Madame Vestris as Don Giovani [art original]
3. Travel diaries, [circa 1770].
- Creator:
- Burney, Charles, 1726-1814.
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1770]
- Call Number:
- Osborn c194
- Image Count:
- 346
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript diaries, in two hands, describing Burney's tour of Italy and France in 1770. The first volume begins with an explanation of the purpose of his tour, to collect information about music, and of the diaries, to record the incidents of the tour which do not appear in his published account of his journey, "The Present State of Music in France and Italy." He describes the streets of the cities he visits, dinners with acquaintances, musical performances, and books he buys. In Paris, he is disappointed with an opera he hears; in Lyons, he plays cards with several Italian merchants; admires paintings in Turin; studies rare books in the Vatican; and visits Mount Vesuvius. He also describes a chance meeting with the twelve-year old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his father in Bologna, and mentions his meeting and friendship with scientist and scholar Laura Bassi of Bologna, who demonstrates her recent electrical inventions for him. The diaries conclude with his return to London, seven months after he leaves.
- Description:
- Binding: vol. 1: paper., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Paginated 1-129, mostly as openings with facing leaves blank or lightly annotated., and See Lonsdale, p. 99 n.5.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Europe--Social life and customs., France--Description and travel., Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century., and Italy--Description and travel.
- Subject (Name):
- Bassi, Laura,--1711-1778., Burney, Charles,--1726-1814., and Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
- Subject (Topic):
- Music--France--18th century., Music--Italy--18th century., and Travelers' writings, English.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Travel diaries, [circa 1770].
