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Durham mustard too powerfull for Italian capers, or the opera in an uproar

• Object type

  • satirical print
  • print

• Museum number

  1868,0808.6711

• Title (object)

  • Durham mustard too powerfull for Italian capers, or the opera in an uproar

• Description

  The Bishop of Durham strides across the footlights on to the stage, his left foot on the shoulder of one of the orchestra below. He wears a mitre and holds his crosier in both hands, as if to attack four danseuses holding garlands of roses who pirouette derisively. He says: "Avaunt the Satan, I fear the not assume whatever shape or form thou wilt I am determined to lay the thou black Fiend." The heads of some of the orchestra appear behind his left leg. A profile head on the extreme left says "Thats right down with them". Against the wall (left) are a carved satyr and a playbill: 'The Divil of a Lover - Hes much tlame' [to blame] and 'Peeping Tom' (by O'Keefe, 1784). The first was a musical farce played once only on 17 Mar. 1798, the second was first played on 13 Feb. 1798. Genest, vii. 360, 361. c.March 1798
  Hand-coloured etching

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• Producer name

  • Print made by: Isaac Cruikshank
  • Published by: J McQuire

• School/style

  • British

• Date

  • 1798 (?)

• Production place

  • Published in: London
  • (Europe,British Isles,England,London)

• Materials

  • paper

• Technique

  • hand-coloured
  • etching

• Dimensions

  • Height: 245 millimetres
  • Width: 354 millimetres

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Content

      Lettered with title, text within image and publication line: "London by J. Mc Quire Burr St Liecester Square"

• Curator's comments

  (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)
  For Barrington and opera dancers see BMSat 9297, &c. Reissued by Tegg in 1807.

  (Supplementary information)
  The print was reissued in 1807 by Thomas Tegg of 111 Cheapside (see 1851,0901.903).

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• Bibliography

  • BM Satires 9300

• Location

  Not on display (British XVIIIc Unmounted Roy)

• Subjects

  • satire

• Associated names

  • Associated with: Shute Barrington, Bishop of Durham

• Acquisition name

  • Purchased from: Edward Hawkins (estate of)

• Acquisition date

  1868

• Department

  Prints & Drawings

• Registration number

  1868,0808.6711