Five miles off, or, The finger post with the humorous song Ti-Tum-Ti, sung by Mr. Liston in Mr. T. Dibdin's popular comedy at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. [graphic]

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Title
Five miles off, or, The finger post with the humorous song Ti-Tum-Ti, sung by Mr. Liston in Mr. T. Dibdin's popular comedy at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. [graphic]
Alternative Title
Finger post
Contributor
Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created
[30 September 1806]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Publish'd Septr. 30, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract

"Heading to engraved verses ... Liston as Flourish, a Quaker, stands primly, thumbs together, beside Ruth, a Quakeress, who points alluringly to a distant grove, behind him is a signpost with three arms, one inscribed '5. Miles'. He relates his discomfiture by another suitor. The song ends: 'And kick'd me Ruthlessly behind With his Toe Turn Ti.'."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title from item.
Plate numbered '440' in the lower left corner.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.
Twenty-four lines of verse arranged in two numbered columns in lower portion of plate: Yea! I fell in the pit of love, Ti Tum Ti ...
Provenance
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xiii.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 26 x 22.6 cm, on sheet 28 x 24 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
806.09.20.01

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Songs
Satires (Visual works) England 1806
Etchings England London 1806
Material
etching and engraving with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Quakers
Courtship
Subjects
Quakers
Courtship
England > 1806
England > London > 1806

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
8543902
Object ID (OID)
15813897

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