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- Creator:
- Covent Garden Theatre
- Published / Created:
- [1753]
- Call Number:
- File 767 P69B C838 1753
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- For the benefit of Mr. Smith
- Description:
- Caption title. and With ms. annotation of the date added in an unidentified hand: 1753. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- The Theatre
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Covent Garden Theatre., Hughes, John, 1677-1720., Barry, Spranger, 1719-1777., Ryan, Lacy, 1694?-1760., and Cibber, Susannah Maria Arne, 1714-1766.
- Subject (Topic):
- Theaters
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > At the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden, this present Saturday, being the 7th of April, will be presented a tragedy, call'd The seige of Damascus ... : the part of Phocyas to be perform'd by Mr. Barry, Eumenes by Mr. Ryan ... and the part of Eudocia to be perform'd by Mrs. Cibber ...
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- Creator:
- Covent Garden Theatre
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- File 767 P69B C838 1756 4/29
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Not acted this season
- Description:
- Caption title. and With extensive ms. notes concerning another performance, with names of performers. For further information, consult library staff (object file: File 767 P69B C838 1753).
- Publisher:
- The Theatre
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Covent Garden Theatre., Hill, Aaron, 1751?-1830., and Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.
- Subject (Topic):
- Theaters
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > For the benefit of Mr. Clarke, at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden, on Thursday next, being the 29th of April, will be reviv'd a tragedy, call'd Alzira. : Zamor by Mr. Clarke, ... Alvarez by Mr. Sparks, Carlos by Mr. Dyer ... To which will be added a farce (not acted these ten years) called Duke and no Duke. ...
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1748]
- Call Number:
- File 66 748 J65+++
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Letterpress broadside with a hand-colored etched and engraved header illustrating the use of a fire-engine at the site of the Cornhill fire, which occurred on 25 March 1748
- Description:
- Caption title from letterpress text. and Annotations on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Fire engines and Fire extinction
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > John Bristow, engine-maker, to all His Majesty's forts, garrisons, dock-yards and other public offices belonging to His Majesty's Royal Navy ...
- Published / Created:
- [1770s]
- Call Number:
- File 646 806 P273+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- A broadside advertising a coach service from No. 2 Bridge Street off Ludgate Hill to persons who wish to travel fast in a post-chaise and who need a partner in order to hire the carriage. No name or business is specified, the author of this lengthy advertisement explains that such a utilitarian service needs no introduction
- Description:
- Caption title., First line: Whoever sollicits the patronage of the publick, should be careful to state his pretensions in convincing terms ..., Not in ESTC., and On verso, annotated in black ink in an unidentified hand, four names. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Topic):
- Coaching (Transportation)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Partners in travelling at short notice
- Published / Created:
- [1793]
- Call Number:
- 793.00.00.108
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Paine (head and shoulders only visible) dangles on a noose from a lamp-bracket, the post of which is inscribed 'Rights of This Man'. The head of Orléans with the horns of a devil looks down at Paine from behind the post, which he clutches with his talons. From the lamp dangles an escutcheon, on which are pairs of stays and a chevron, with the motto 'Common Sense'.
- Description:
- Title from letterpress text below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., With eighteen lines of letterpress text attacking Paine, beginning: Setting forth as how Tom was born at Thetford ..., and Dated '1794' in a contemporary hand. Beneath the date is a later pencil inscription: ‘This is said to contain a strong likeness of Paine and is not a print to be bought.’
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809., and Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d', 1747-1793
- Subject (Topic):
- Nooses, Hangings (Executions), and Lampposts
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The end of pain the last speech, dying words, and confession of T.P. [graphic]
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- Published / Created:
- [1814]
- Call Number:
- File 767 P69B C838 1814 2/9
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Caption title., A playbill., For further information, consult library staff., and Annotation on verso: "A great and overflowing audience from box pit and galleries /2 price at 5 to 9 tragedy over 5 past 10 and all concluded by a /4[?] feast eleven o'clock with Mr Roberts at Piazza Pit Room."
- Publisher:
- E. Macleish, printer, 2, Bow-Street, London
- Subject (Name):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Hoare, Prince, 1755-1834., and Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, this present Wednesday, February 9, 1814 will be acted, Shakspeare's tragedy of Julius Caesar ... : Brutus by Mr. Kemble ... to which will be added the farce of The spoil'd child ...