The Green Room scuffle, or, Drury Lane in an uproar
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Description
- Title
- The Green Room scuffle, or, Drury Lane in an uproar
- Alternative Title
- Drury Lane in an uproar
- Contributor
- Booth, Thomas, active 1743-1746, printmaker.
- Published / Created
- [29 January 1746]
- Publication Place
- London
- 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
- Description
-
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.
Mounted to 38 x 27 cm. - Provenance
- Suckling.
- Extent
- 1 sheet ([1] p.) : 36 x 26 cm.
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 746.01.29.01+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Broadsides
Satires
Songs
Etchings England London 1746
Satires (Visual works) England 1746
Brit tracts - Material
- 1 etching ;
- Subject (Name)
-
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785
Woffington, Margaret, -1760
Barry, Spranger, 1719-1777 - Subjects
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Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785 > Caricatures and cartoons
Woffington, Margaret, -1760 > Caricatures and cartoons
Barry, Spranger, 1719-1777 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > London > 1746
England > 1746
Brit tracts > 1746
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8712993
- Object ID (OID)
- 10714381
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