- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.07.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Alternative Title:
- Late epistle to Mr. Cleveland and Cabin council
- Description:
- Title from first line of letterpress below image., Publisher identified from address., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., "To be had at the Acorn facing Hungerford Market in the Strand."--Bottom of sheet., "Pr. 6d."--Bottom of plate., Broadside poem illustrated with etching at top of sheet. Title on etching: Cabin council., Mock paraphrase of Admiral Byng's letter to John Cleveland, Admiralty., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: cabin on Ramillies (admiral's ship) -- Military uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Naval uniforms: officers' uniforms -- Furnishings: porcelain -- Guns: cannons -- 2nd Earl of Effingham -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's Henry IV -- Literature: quotation from Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1612-1680., and Watermark: countermark I V.
- Publisher:
- Edwards & Darly
- Subject (Name):
- Byng, John, 1704-1757 and Cornwallis, Edward, 1713-1776
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A late epistle to Mr. C------d.
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- Published / Created:
- [1804]
- Call Number:
- 804.00.00.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Abstract:
- Illustration at the top of the letterpress broadside. "Mrs. Siddons leans back in her chair, majestically resentful. She addresses Harris, [Grego suggests Topham, whom he does not resemble, and who was living in Yorkshire.] patentee and manager of Covent Garden, who stands before her (l.), hat in hand. Between them stands the much taller J. P. Kemble, his left hand on his sister's shoulder. Mrs. Siddons leans one elbow on a table (r.) on which are three books: 'Salary Benifi[ts]', 'The Right of Woman', 'Duty of Man', and a bust of (?) herself, looking reproachfully towards the group. On the wall (r.) is part of a print: 'Propagation of a Lye', six figures from Bunbury's well-known plate, BMSat 7230 (1787). The text is a debate (printed in full by Grego): Mrs. Siddons complains to Harris of neglect on account of 'your Blind Bargain and Infant Roscius'. Harris, 'First Monarch', answers: 'if John Bull chooses to feed on slink calf, instead of substantial roast beef, yet consents to pay for the roast it is not for me to complain. . . . you have had your day. . . .' He reminds her of her good salary. Kemble, 'Second Monarch', supports him, and ends: 'Public taste ... is now in second childishness; and when mere oblivion takes place, then you shall make a sally, and should the Town require a filip [Philip] I will be at your elbow.'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Child's play defended by theatrical monarchs
- Description:
- Caption title in letterpress below etching., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: E & C T Russell 1797.
- Publisher:
- Printed by D.N. Shury, Berwick Street, for Ackermann, 101 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823 and Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Melpomene in the dumps, or, Child's play defended by theatrical monarchs [graphic]