A playbill recording a performance of Wild oats by John O'Keeffe (1747-1833) and Cross purposes by William O'Brien (d. 1815), on 19 July 1803 at Dalby Theatre, the private playhouse of Edward Hartopp (1758-1808) at his seat Little Dalby Hall in Leicestershire. Edward Hartopp's private theatricals seem to have been staged sporadically from 1777, becoming larger and more elaborate at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Edward Hartopp, his son, Mr. Bilsborrow, and two of the Misses Hamilton are listed as performers
Description:
A playbill, including cast lists. and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Clementson, printer, Melton
Subject (Geographic):
England and Leicestershire.
Subject (Name):
Hartopp, Edward, 1758-1808., O'Keeffe, John, 1747-1833., and O'Brien, William, -1815.
Title from item., Title continues: Likewise all manner of household furniture made in the genteelest taste, goods apprais'd, and funerals furnish'd by your humble servant as above. From Mr. Greers., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 23 of an album of trade cards and invitations.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1757]
Call Number:
Quarto 66 726 T675
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,59.49., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 49 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Title continues: Sells all sorts of old prints, Italian drawing paper, water colours, red & black-chalk pencils, also porte folio, for prints, and all sorts of stationary ware., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 9 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Caption title from poem inscribed below image., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Chevalier of the Golden Calf, or, Captain of the early and late time of slaughtering in procession to the Oracle of Delphos., Publication place and date from book in which this print was published., Two columns of verse below title: 'k Schoot menig vogel mis, 'k heb ook schaars wild gevangen ..., Plate 67 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... . [Netherlands?], 1720, v.1., Mounted to 45 x 35 cm., and Watermark.
Art of painting and Short account of the most eminent painters both ancient and modern
Description:
Signatures: [pi]² a-h⁴ B-2Y⁴ 2Z²., Translation of: De arte graphica., Added title-page, engraved by S. Gribelin., Title page in red and black., Includes the original poem in Latin; translated from the French version of R. de Piles., 'A short account of the most eminent painters ... ' [by R. Graham] has special title-page., Errata: p. [356], Original panelled calf; it was quite probably a copy kept in the house in town and bequeathed to Lady Waldegrave. Mr. Harris Prior of Geneva, N.Y., also owns a copy of the edition of 1695, in which Horace Walpole's bookplate has been inserted., and Laid in is the lining paper of a copy of this edition in which Horace Walpole's bookplate had been inserted, owned by Harris Prior. No press mark was found. With four architectural sketches in pencil on front flyleaf.
Publisher:
Printed by J. Heptinstall for W. Rogers, at the Sun against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleetstreet
Dividend receipt addressed "To Mr. Lockyer accomptant at the South Sea house" and annotated in the lower right by "Rich. Sarum". The body of the document reads: "Pray pay to the bearer Mr. Daniel Gell my share of the midsumer [sic] dividend due on two thousand four hundred forty four pounds eight shillings 10d.1/2 capital stock in the South Sea Company, and this shall be a sufficient warrant. Westmr. Octr. 25 1722".
Description:
The South Sea Company was granted a monopoly to supply African slaves to the islands in the South Seas and South America. The stock rose quickly until around 1720 when it collapsed (known as the South Sea Bubble)., In English., Title from auction description., In brown ink, tipped along upper margin into a folder., and For further information, consult library staff.
Caption title., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Verse begins: "There was a rich man, who had treasures great,"., In three columns with the title centered above all three and the imprint below the third column; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 18. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Title from text above images., Nine designs on one plate, each with lines of dialogue etched below., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1828.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1829 by S. Gan's, Southampton Stree[t], Strand