Five in the morning [graphic].

Description

Title: Five in the morning [graphic].
Contributor: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist.
Published / Created: [approximately 1800?]
Publication Place: Dublin?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A young drunk dandy, his clothes torn and spattered, is being ushered into a box-chair on the left by three members of the Watch, who grin consipiratorily towards the viewer. The scene is apparently set in the arcade of Covent Garden; on the ground is a playbill lettered 'At the Theatre Royal / Crow Street / the Road to Ruin'.
Description: Title etched below image.
Place of publication inferred from text on playbeill within image, which mentions Dublin's Theatre Royal in Crow Street.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Probably a copy, with different text on depicted playbill, of a print after Dighton that was published in London by Haines & Son on 18 June 1795. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.435.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint statement.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: London: Covent Garden -- Footmen -- Playbills -- Literature: Allusion to The Road to Ruin, by Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809) -- Theatre Royal, Crow Street.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. viii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 33 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings Ireland Dublin 1800
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): City & town life
Intoxication
Pickpockets
Sedan chairs
Subjects: City & town life
Intoxication
Pickpockets
Sedan chairs
England > 1800
Ireland > Dublin > 1800

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