print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1861,0518.1208
- Title
- Object: Mr. Lobski or the river sprat-catcher.
- Description
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Heading to printed verses: 'Sung with unbounded Applause by Mr. Fawcett, at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket, in the New Grand Melo-Dramatic Opera called "The Exile:" [; or, The Deserts of Siberia] written by John Frederick Reynolds, Esq.' A man wearing a short fur-trimmed and frogged coat, with tight breeches and small tricorne, poses mincingly in a landscape with background of river, bridge, and fortified (Russian) town (right).
Plate numbered 501.
Nov 24 1808
Etching with letterpress
- Production date
- 1808
- Dimensions
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Height: 173 millimetres
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Height: 300 millimetres
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Width: 217 millimetres (platemark)
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Width: 240 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)
The opera was first played 10 Nov. 1808, by the Covent Garden Company at the Opera House, after their theatre had been burnt on 19 Sept. Fawcett played Servitz. Genest, viii. 127. See No. 11210.
Cohn, No. 1768.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1861
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1861,0518.1208
