print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1872,1012.3688
- Title
- Object: Melopoyn (a distressed poet) and the manager
- Description
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Melopoyn, a gaunt, black-clad figure, standing at left by a table covered with sheaves of paper, at which sits a theatre manager to whom he has submitted a play for consideration, who gestures emptily at him; illustration to Tobias Smollett, 'The Adventures of Roderick Random' (London, 1793), Vol. 2. 1793
Etching on bluish paper
- Production date
- 1793
- Dimensions
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Height: 109 millimetres (cropped)
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Width: 155 millimetres (cropped)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From a Rowlandson-illustrated edition of 'Roderick Random' published by Sibbald and sold by T Kay of the Strand, London.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Adventures of Roderick Random
- Acquisition date
- 1872
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1872,1012.3688