Harlequin, wearing a costume decorated with tools and animals of the conjuring trade, balances on a ladder facing right. The laughing audience is seen beyond the edge of a wooden stage in front of a sheet screening the scene, suggesting a street perfo...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Harlequin (Fictitious character), Theatrical productions, Stages (Platforms), and Audiences
A tracing of a 1731 print after Hogarth: Satire on Orator Henley and his followers. A view of his Oratory in Clare Market with Henley preaching from an open-air platform in front of the building, one cloven hoof protruding from beneath his robe. A mon...
Description:
Title from text in image.
Subject (Name):
Henley, John, 1692-1756 and Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757
A Methodist preacher preaching to an open-air congregation with a cloth in one hand, two women preparing to steal a pair of shoes in the midst of the crowd, various people looking on including an apple seller with a cart, a ballad seller with a baby o...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, & sold by the proprietor John Griffiths, Chief Porter of the Middle Temple, opposite the General Post Office, Middle Temple Lane, & the print shops &c.
Subject (Name):
St. Luke's Hospital (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Preaching, Audiences, Carts & wagons, Dogs, Kites (Toys), Pickpockets, Street vendors, and Taverns (Inns)
Probable book illustration, within ornamental frame, of a man declaiming from a raised platform before an audience composed chiefly of men in the foreground and of women in the upper gallery, the setting illuminated by candles on the table before the ...
Alternative Title:
School of Shakespeare
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Subject (Topic):
Dramatic productions, Acting, Actors, Audiences, and Stages (Platforms)
Two elderly women in hats sit, the one on the left is facing forward with arns across her chest; the woman on the right turns to the right and holds a sheet in her hands
"Theatre stage with two dancers; a woman (La Barbarina) jumping with her legs apart and a man (George Desnoyer) with his legs together; on either side a chorus, or audience, and statues of Comedy and Tragedy holding candles."--British Museum online ca...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 1, 1782 by Rd. Livesay at Mrs. Hogarths Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
Campanini, Barbara 1721-1799 and Desnoyer, George, approximately 1700-1764
On the right, the chairman of the Robin Hood Society leans over a rostrum toward the speaker, Jeffery Dunstan, a hawker whose physical deformities and wit led to his election as the "mayor of Garrett" shown in the image behind him on the wall. The car...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 25, 1783, by W Humphrey, No 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Debates and debating, Audiences, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
On the right, the chairman of the Robin Hood Society leans over a rostrum toward the speaker, Jeffery Dunstan, a hawker whose physical deformities and wit led to his election as the "mayor of Garrett" shown in the image behind him on the wall. The car...
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Debates and debating, Audiences, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
