Caption title in letterpress below image., Letterpress broadside song illustrated with etching (design 15.5 x 25 cm) at top of sheet. Title on plate: "Totus mundus agit histrionem." Signed in lower right corner: Tho. Booth sculp., Dated by Stephens 1725 from the British Museum impression that lacks the song and imprint., Sheet trimmed close to design and letterpress resulting in minor loss of title., "To the tune of Gossip Joan.", Sixteen stanzas of song in three columns below title: Ye peers, ye cits and beaux who haunt pit, box and gall'ry ..., Describes a fight between two actresses, Kitty Clive and Peg Woffington, which took place in 1746 when Henry IV was performed at Drury Lane, as related by Thomas Davies in his Dramatic miscellanies, 1784, v. 1, p. 231-3. The subjects in the print were identified by Horace Walpole (1717-1797) in his copy of Davies' Miscellanies., Temporary local subject terms: Theaters: Green Room, Drury Lane -- Actors: Owen MacSwinney and James Raftor., and Mounted to 38 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd persuant to act of Parliament, Jan. 29, 1746, by G. Foster on Ludgate-Hill, and sold at the print and pamphlet shop in London and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, Woffington, Margaret, -1760, and Barry, Spranger, 1719-1777
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record, based on Lord Bute's appointment., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., Illustration to a ballad of the same title, printed below the plate., One line of quotation below title: Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator?, Twelve stanzas in two columns separated with vertical ornamental border: I. We're told how Cecilia did soothingly sing and sweetly inspire, th'angelical quire! ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Choruses -- Buildings: outhouse -- Pleasure gardens: reference to Ranelagh -- Musical instruments -- Music: song sheets -- Ballads: The Dilletante! -- "The new Highland laddie" -- Literature: quotation from Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (55/60-127)., and Watermark: countermark I V.
Publisher:
Published by M. Darly, at Number 39, in the Strand
Subject (Name):
William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
King George III and his wife Queen Charlotte are shown as a farmer and his wife riding on a tired-looking horse on the road to the spa Cheltenham as indicated by the milestone. In the distance is a castle
Alternative Title:
Visit to Cheltenham
Description:
Title engraved above image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Two columns of verses printed in letterpress below image, entitled: The royal ramble, or, A visit to Cheltenham spa., and Mounted to 37 x 26 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, July 26 1788, by E. Rich, No. 55, Fleet-Street
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 and Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
Title from text engraved above image., Imprint continues: ... where his other comic songs may be had., Design in four compartments surmounted by a headpiece, on a broadside., A song, sung to the tune of "The Dashing White Serjeant" and written by T. Hudson, in letterpress below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by Geo. Hunt, 18, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, and T. Hudson, 98, Shoe Lane, Fleet Street ...
Caption title in letterpress below image., The illustration is by Hogarth. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works. No. 180, v. 1, p. 202-204., First line of first recitative: Twas at the gates of Calais, Hogarth tells, where sad despair and famine always dwell ..., Date based on Tringham's location at Royal Exchange. The first recorded edition of Theodosius Forrest's cantata printed below, is 1759., Three columns of verses alternating Recitative and Air., and On page 145 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Printed for W. Tringham, under the North Piazza of the Royal Exchange, in Threadneedle-Street
Lord Bute stands in the left niche of a triumphal arch with a triple arcade in the lowest storey, the words "East Indies" and "Martinico" inscribed above. In the right niche stands a statue of the Duke of Bedford; above him are the words "West Indies" and Guadaloupe". The center niche is empty but the word "Havannah" are inscribed in the archway. itectural structure: triumphal arc -- Personifications: Scotia -- Scots -- Food: haggis -- Emblems: bagpipes -- Emblems: dove with an olive branch -- Emblems: Scotch thistle -- Emblems: jack boot for Lord Bute
Description:
Letterpress title partially printed within lower plate line., Below title: To the tune of There was an old woman at Grimstead., Two columns of verse below title, separated vertically with an ornamental border: I prithe, good Sir, do not make all this stir this peace shall be never forgotten ..., and Lengthy publisher's advertisement below verses, following imprint: ... where may be had, The British antidote to Caledonian poison, 2 vols ...
Publisher:
Sold by E. Sumpter, three doors from Shoe Lane, Fleet Street ...