Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker / Genre: Caricatures and cartoons / Subject (Topic): Musicians

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Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: 14 Jany. 1789.
Call Number:: 789.01.14.01 Impression 1
Collection Title:: Verso of leaf 54. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Sheridan (left) speaks through a small aperture in the curtain which he holds open, addressing the musicians, some of whom are seen on the right, saying, with a conspiratorial scowl, "D-n em dont play God Save the King". Behind the musicians are the heads of some of the audience in the pit, shouting; a label extending across part of the print (right), inscribed 'Play God save the King', shows their words. In a box are a lady and two men. The print shows the arrangement of footlights, orchestra, pit, and a box on the first tier."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Note on verso in contemporary hand: Sheridan accus'd of having stopped the performance of God Save the King, in the King's illness - 1788.
Publisher:: Publd. by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Name):: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England),
Subject (Topic):: Regency, Musicians, Musical instruments, National songs, and Theaters
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A peep behind the curtain at Drury Lane [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: 14 Jany. 1789.
Call Number:: Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Verso of leaf 54. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Sheridan (left) speaks through a small aperture in the curtain which he holds open, addressing the musicians, some of whom are seen on the right, saying, with a conspiratorial scowl, "D-n em dont play God Save the King". Behind the musicians are the heads of some of the audience in the pit, shouting; a label extending across part of the print (right), inscribed 'Play God save the King', shows their words. In a box are a lady and two men. The print shows the arrangement of footlights, orchestra, pit, and a box on the first tier."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted on page 68.
Publisher:: Publd. by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Name):: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England),
Subject (Topic):: Regency, Musicians, Musical instruments, National songs, and Theaters
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A peep behind the curtain at Drury Lane [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: 14 Jany. 1789.
Call Number:: Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:: Verso of leaf 54. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Sheridan (left) speaks through a small aperture in the curtain which he holds open, addressing the musicians, some of whom are seen on the right, saying, with a conspiratorial scowl, "D-n em dont play God Save the King". Behind the musicians are the heads of some of the audience in the pit, shouting; a label extending across part of the print (right), inscribed 'Play God save the King', shows their words. In a box are a lady and two men. The print shows the arrangement of footlights, orchestra, pit, and a box on the first tier."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper ; plate mark 19.3 x 17 cm, on sheet 21.1 x 18.4 cm., and Mounted on verso of leaf 54 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:: Publd. by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Geographic):: England.
Subject (Name):: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England),
Subject (Topic):: Regency, Musicians, Musical instruments, National songs, and Theaters
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A peep behind the curtain at Drury Lane [graphic]

Creator:: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:: [25 April 1785]
Call Number:: 785.04.25.01.2+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Later state, with additions to title, as described in British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Music: 'Ballanamonioro' by Charles Morris, 1745-1838 -- Music: 'God save great George, our king' by Henry Carey, 1690?-1743 -- Opposition to Irish Propositions -- Music: concertos -- Coalition., and Mounted to 37 x 56 cm.
Publisher:: Published 25th April 1785 by Thomas Cornell, [Bruton] Street
Subject (Name):: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796, and Auckland, William Eden, Baron, 1744-1814
Subject (Topic):: Musical instruments and Musicians
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The first sketch for the concerto coalitionale & infernale, unpublished [graphic]