Theatre Royal Covent Garden under the management of Madame Vestris
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., Classed as a collection of playbills for productions of Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto., and Sheet torn in half at the center fold.
Verse -- "Cold and raw the North did blow,"., Anonymous. By Thomas D’Urfey., In four columns with the title above the first two and a woodcut above the first; the columns are not separated by rules. - A variant has "no. 41, Aldermary Church Yard"., The body of the text is set entirely in italic type., No full stop at end of title and first line of verse ends with a comma., Dated from the address in the other printing (or issue); see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Another printing (or issue), clearly from the same setting of type, has imprint "Printed and sold at no. 4, Aldermary Church Yard" (ESTC T206462)., Mounted on leaf 10. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Signatures: A²., Referring to the Sacheverell trial., Drop-head title., Imprint from colophon., Price from colophon: Price 2d., and Disbound; remnants of binding to gutter. For further information, consult library staff.
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Engraved broadside with six stanzas of verse, 2 staves of music for flute at the bottom of sheet, and an illustration above title., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Female costume, 1720.
"Prince Leopold (right), in uniform, puts his head through a glassless aperture in a window in the door of his 'Grecian Establish[ment]--Co[burg]', to look intently at a fat Turk who stands in profile to the right, elaborately dressed and holding a long pipe with smoking bowl. The door, partly cut off by the right margin, is flanked by a Corinthian pillar and set in a wall on which are placards: 'This . Shop!!! will shortly open under entire new Management--Vivant [sic] Rex'; a Union Jack poster (partly covered); the Russian eagle, and a fleur-de-lis, the two last inscribed 'Loan'. The Turk: 'What have you taken the Shop? well if you take my advice you will not give Your Customers too much Credit for I can tell you they are a queer set to deal with by the bye they nearly ruined me--and mind that you look sharp after your Shopmen'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Window mounted to 50 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. April 10, 1830, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865
Subject (Topic):
Turks, Ethnic stereotypes, Doors & doorways, National emblems, and Signs (Notices)