print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1861,0518.1113
- Title
- Object: The Yorkshireman in London: or Humphrey Hobnail's return from the play. Sung by Mr Emery, with unbounded applause, at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden
- Description
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Heading to engraved verses: 'Sung by Mr Emery, with unbounded applause, at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden, (Written by Mr John Major.)' The Yorkshireman, wearing a smock, stands on the stage, with a background of trees, flanked by two tiers of stage boxes. The orchestra forms the base of the design: piano on left., kettledrums on r., wind and string instruments facing each other. Statues of Thalia and Melpomene on high pedestals border the stage. The verses relate the countryman's delight with the sights, especially 'the Play', The "Bold stroke for a Wife" [by Mrs. Centlivre] where he laughed at the Quakers, and the farce of the "Devil to pay" [see BMSat 7908]. Cf. BMSat 10686. 8 November 1806
Etching
- Production date
- 1806
- Dimensions
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Height: 271 millimetres
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Width: 229 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1861
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1861,0518.1113
