print;
satirical print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.12489
- Title
- Object: A musico-oratorical portrait. An oddity
- Description
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Dibdin stands smiling beside a harpsichord (left) directed to the left, and leaning slightly forward, left hand extended. In his right is a paper inscribed 'Oddities Wags'. On each side of the harpsichord is a tripod supporting a lighted candle-sconce. He is giving a musical entertainment. In the text he is ridiculed as Petronius Broadgrin, noted for consummate effrontery, and he is recommended the works of Joe Miller as a repertory of jokes. Below the title: 'Wags have at ye.' 1 March 1791
Etching
- Production date
- 1791
- Dimensions
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Height: 171 millimetres
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Width: 112 millimetres
- $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', VI, 1938)
From the 'Attic Miscellany', ii. 197.
Dibdin engaged the Lyceum for his two successful entertainments, 'Oddities' 1788-9 and 'The Wags' 1790, at which he sang and accompanied himself. 'D.N.B.' and Dibdin, 'Professional Life', 1803, iii. 3 ff. See BMSat 7420.
The plate was reissued, Sept. 1794, as 'The Music Manufacturer', with the imprint 'Engraved for the Carlton House Magazine' (B.M.L., P.P. 5448).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.12489