print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.6711
- Title
- Object: Durham mustard too powerfull for Italian capers, or the opera in an uproar
- Description
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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
- Production date
- 1798 (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 245 millimetres
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Width: 354 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', 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).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.6711
