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1. Melpomene [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [6 December 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.12.06.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Mrs. Siddons stands on the stage, her head turned in profile to the left, her left hand outstretched to take a heavy purse which hangs on a pitchfork emerging from clouds. To take it she has dropped a dagger which falls to the ground. In her left hand is a cup whose contents she is pouring on the ground. The panniers of her dress fly backwards revealing two bulging pockets, one full of guineas, the other of notes or cheques inscribed '£1000, £300', &c. She is saying: "Famish'd & spent relieving others woe, Your poor devoted Suppliant only begs, This morsel for to buy a bit of Bread." The black clouds of smoke from which the pitchfork projects rise in a pillar of cloud from the pit of the theatre where flames are indicated, from which come the words 'Encore! Encore!' In the background a temple of Fame on a mountain-top is collapsing, the pillars shattered; the figure of Fame falls backward, dropping his trumpet."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Mythology -- Melpomene (Mythological character) -- Purses of money -- Falling figure of Fame -- Temple of Fame -- Symbols: daggers -- Symbols: goblets -- Theater stage., and Counter watermark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Decr. 6th, 1784, by J. Ridgeway, No. 196 Piccadilly, London
- Subject (Name):
- Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
- Subject (Topic):
- Purses, Coins, Pitchforks, Temples, Drinking vessels, and Daggers & swords
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Melpomene [graphic].
2. Melpomene in the dumps, or, Child's play defended by theatrical monarchs [graphic]
- 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]
3. Mrs. Siddons, old Kemble and Henderson rehearsing in the Green Room [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1789]
- Call Number:
- 789.00.00.03 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Actors -- Actresses -- Rehearsals -- Allusion to the Green Room -- Roger Kemble.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Henderson, John, 1747-1785 and Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Siddons, old Kemble and Henderson rehearsing in the Green Room [graphic]
4. The caricaturers stock in trade [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mansell, William, 1750-1820, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [26 March 1786]
- Call Number:
- 786.03.26.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Design in an oval. Thirteen heads arranged in four rows, the first, second, and fourth having three heads, the third four. In the uppermost row the Prince of Wales (left) and the King (right) face each other in profile; the likeness between them is stressed. Between and slightly above them is Queen Charlotte, in profile to the left, her hair inscribed 'Queen of hearts', cf. British Museum Satires No. 6978. In the next row Fox, full-face, is the central head of the design; Mrs. Fitzherbert (left) (unrecognizable) wears a low crown inscribed 'Queen would be', and the feathers of the Prince of Wales; George Hanger, in profile to the left, wears the large cocked hat made familiar by British Museum Satires No. 6924, &c. The next four heads are (left to right): Mrs. Siddons, wearing a low crown inscribed 'Queen Rant', looking wildly over her shoulder to the right; Burke, wearing spectacles and a cap or turban, his back turned to Pitt who is in profile to the right; on the left in profile to the right is the Duchess of Devonshire, wearing a low crown and a collar which are inscribed 'Queen of Fox'. In the lowest row the central figure is the broad back of North wearing his ribbon; on the left is Mrs. Abington, a ribbon in her much-curled hair inscribed 'Queen Scrub' (see British Museum Satires No. 7053); on the right, in profile to the left, is the Duke of Richmond."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initials "W.M." identified in British Museum catalogue as those of William Mansell., and Characters identified in pencil.
- Publisher:
- Pub. 26 March 1786 by W. Humphrey, Lancaster Court
- Subject (Name):
- Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Abington, Mrs., 1737-1815 (Frances Barton),, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of, 1735-1806, and Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The caricaturers stock in trade [graphic]
5. Theatrical-mendicants relieved "have pity upon all out achès & wantès!" / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [15 January 1809]
- Call Number:
- 809.01.15.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Kemble, in tattered theatrical dress, stands at the gate of Northumberland House in the Strand, holding out his hat and bowing to the obese and oafish-looking Duke of Northumberland, who is placing a "Draft for 10,000 Pounds" in the hat; in his right hand he holds a paper which lists donations. Kemble is followed by his brother Charles and his sister Mrs. Siddons, both of whom are weeping. Her reticule is stuffed with papers and is inscribed "Humble solicitations..."
- Alternative Title:
- New dramatic resource : "a begging we will go! A scene from Covent Garden Theatre after the conflagration
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. Jany. 15, 1809, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Kemble, Charles, 1775-1854, Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823, Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of, 1742-1817, Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831, Strand, The (London, England), and Covent Garden Theatre.
- Subject (Topic):
- Fires, Fools & jesters, and Harlequin (Fictitious character)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Theatrical-mendicants relieved "have pity upon all out achès & wantès!" / [graphic]
6. Young Roscius and his pappa in company with John Bull [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [4 January 1805]
- Call Number:
- 805.01.04.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An oversized John Bull with a carbuncled-faced sits at a round table across from a very young looking William Betty and his father, both handsome and not caricatured. John Bull toasts the two, full wine glass in hand: "Youngster, heres to you I'm glad to see you in town. Old Master Roscius your health, and may you get such another boy every New Year's Day for the benifit [sic] of the English stage." Behind them pinned to the wall are two prints: the one a profile portrait of Mrs. Siddons, hangs from one corner only, and the other a portrait of J.P. Kemble. The three ostrich feathers on the back of Master Betty's chair may indicate the patronage of the Prince of Wales
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: S.W.F., and Description from British Museum catalogue of "Young Roscius and Don John" mounted on verso.
- Publisher:
- Pubd January 4, 1805, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Betty, William Hen. West 1791-1874. (William Henry West),, Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831, and Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Theater, Actors, British, and Child actors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Young Roscius and his pappa in company with John Bull [graphic].