A smile to a tear. Sung with unbounded applause, by Mr Braham, in the New Opera, call'd 'False Alarms, or My Cousin; Theatre Royal Drury Lane / [graphic][2 March 1807]engAn engraving above a song: A pretty young woman (Mrs. Bland) sits with her elbow resting on a square piano, facing a man wearing a cocked hat (Braham), who bends towards her, smiling, hands on hips. She weeps: on the piano is a song: 'False Alarms Smile & Tear . . . Laurie & Whittle'. The piano is by 'Broderip'.Title from text engraved below image."False Alarms, or My Cousin' was a comic opera by Kenney first performed at Drury Lane, 12 Jan. 1807. Braham played Edgar Gayland in love with Emily, played by Mrs. Bland." See British Museum catalogue.From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.Eighteen lines of verse in lower portion of print: Said a smile to a tear, on the cheek of my dear ...Plate numbered '458' in the lower left corner.