A medley of images with a portrait of John Gay; half length, to the right, wearing a cap and plain jacket; in oval; in a medley of prints, set on background of a letter; the prints titled 'The Spell', 'The Judgement', and 'Bumkinet's Advice'; two furt...
Description:
Title from print in upper right.
Publisher:
Geo. Bickham
Subject (Geographic):
Greece.
Subject (Name):
Dennis, John, 1657-1734., Congreve, William, 1670-1729., Curll, Edmund, 1675-1747, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Gay, John, 1685-1732, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721., Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745., and Harte, Walter, 1709-1774.
Subject (Topic):
Pegasus, Coins, Columns, Musical instruments, Puzzles, Ruins, and Wells
A medley of images with a portrait of John Gay; half length, to the right, wearing a cap and plain jacket; in oval; in a medley of prints, set on background of a letter; the prints titled 'The Spell', 'The Judgement', and 'Bumkinet's Advice'; two furt...
Alternative Title:
New deceptio visus, or, A guinea for a shilling
Description:
Title from print in upper right.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Greece.
Subject (Name):
Dennis, John, 1657-1734., Congreve, William, 1670-1729., Curll, Edmund, 1675-1747, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, Gay, John, 1685-1732, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721., Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745., and Harte, Walter, 1709-1774.
Subject (Topic):
Pegasus, Coins, Columns, Musical instruments, Puzzles, Ruins, and Wells
"Satire on the popularity of the Beggar's Opera in the form of a medley print. At top left a print shows two oval portraits, Lavinia Fenton as Polly Peachum on the left and Thomas Walker as Macheath on the right, two short columns of verse beneath. In...
Description:
Title from text engraved above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732, Gay, John, 1685-1732., Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760, Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744, Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726, Bordoni, Faustina, 1697-1781., Amhurst, N. 1697-1742. (Nicholas),, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760., Caroline, Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1737., Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745., Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Heraclitus, of Ephesus., Democritus, approximately 460 B.C.-approximately 370 B.C., and Cuzzoni, Francesca, 1696-1778.
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc, Pegasus (Greek mythology), Apollo, Muses (Greek deities), Parnassus, Mount (Greece), Prints, Prisons, and Theaters
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of fourteen serious verses, many on the subjects of death and religion. Entries include the Prologue to Cato by Alexander Pope (1688-1774), and the Epilogue to Cato by Sir Samuel Garth; a hymn by Joseph Ad...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Religious life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719, Crewe, Frances Anne (Greville) Crewe, Lady, d. 1818 --Poetry, Garth, Samuel, Sir, 1661-1719, Gay, John, 1685-1732, Parnell, Thomas, 1679-1718, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1774, and Thomson, James, 1700-1748
Subject (Topic):
Death --Poetry, Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry --18th century, and Religious poetry, English
Norfolk, Lady Charlotte Sophia (Leveson-Gower) Howard, duchess of, 1788-1870, creator
Published / Created:
[?1811-1823]
Call Number:
Osborn Music MS 20
Image Count:
271
Resource Type:
Music (Printed & Manuscript)
Abstract:
166 pieces copied by the Duchess of Norfolk (formerly Countess of Surrey), in five languages. Pages 73 and 75 are the index and title page of an earlier copybook, dated 1811, bound together with the rest. Writers and composers copied include: Jean-Jac...
Description:
Holograph.
Subject (Name):
Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778, Arnold, Samuel, 1740-1802, Blangini, Felice, 1781-1841, Dalvimare, Martin Pierre, 1772-1839, Gaucelm Faidit, fl. 1156-1209, Gay, John, 1685-1732, Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759, Millico, Giuseppe, 1739-1802, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, Perez, David, 1711-1778, Plantade, Charles Henri, 1764-1839, and Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
Subject (Topic):
Piano music--19th century and Songs --19th century
Consisting of a collection of canons, catches, canzonets, and glees for 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices. 75 pieces, of which approximately 50 are signed and dated by Hayes. Some are poems set to music (by Hayes?) -- writers include: Samuel Westley [sic], Mr. Sh...
Description:
Although noted in contents on pastedown, p. 5-8 wanting.
