Title from caption below image., Printmaker and publication from volume., and Plate from: Historical and literary curiosities: consisting of fac-similes of original documents ... / selected and engraved by Charles John Smith. London: Henry G. Bohn ..., 1840.
Caption title in letterpress below image., Letterpress broadside song illustrated with etching (design 15.5 x 25 cm) at top of sheet. Title on plate: "Totus mundus agit histrionem." Signed in lower right corner: Tho. Booth sculp., Dated by Stephens 1725 from the British Museum impression that lacks the song and imprint., Sheet trimmed close to design and letterpress resulting in minor loss of title., "To the tune of Gossip Joan.", Sixteen stanzas of song in three columns below title: Ye peers, ye cits and beaux who haunt pit, box and gall'ry ..., Describes a fight between two actresses, Kitty Clive and Peg Woffington, which took place in 1746 when Henry IV was performed at Drury Lane, as related by Thomas Davies in his Dramatic miscellanies, 1784, v. 1, p. 231-3. The subjects in the print were identified by Horace Walpole (1717-1797) in his copy of Davies' Miscellanies., Temporary local subject terms: Theaters: Green Room, Drury Lane -- Actors: Owen MacSwinney and James Raftor., and Mounted to 38 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd persuant to act of Parliament, Jan. 29, 1746, by G. Foster on Ludgate-Hill, and sold at the print and pamphlet shop in London and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, Woffington, Margaret, -1760, and Barry, Spranger, 1719-1777
Title from caption above image., Temporary local subject terms: London: Covent Garden Piazza -- Pools -- Harlequin -- Playbills -- Signs: "Coffee tea" -- Petitions: petition of actors' grievances, 1743 -- Wages in theater: dispute over wages between actors and managers -- Inflated bladders with signs of characters in plays -- Henry Giffard, d. 1743 -- Richard Winstone, d. 1787 -- Turbutt, d.1740 -- Cashill or Cashel, d. 1748., and Lower left corner of sheet missing.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, Octobr. 24th 1743 by G. Foster at the White Horse on Ludgate Hill
