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Durham mustard too powerfull for Italian capers, or the opera in an uproar
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Object type
Museum number
1868,0808.6711
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Title (object)
- Durham mustard too powerfull for Italian capers, or the opera in an uproar
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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
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School/style
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Date
- 1798 (?)
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Production place
- Published in: London
- (Europe,British Isles,England,London)
- Published in: London
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Materials
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Technique
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Dimensions
- Height: 245 millimetres
- Width: 354 millimetres
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Inscriptions
Inscription Content
Lettered with title, text within image and publication line: "London by J. Mc Quire Burr St Liecester Square"
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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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Location
Not on display (British XVIIIc Unmounted Roy)
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Acquisition name
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Acquisition date
1868
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Department
Prints & Drawings
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Registration number
1868,0808.6711
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