print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1981,U.216
- Title
- Object: Five miles off, or the finger post. With the humorous song of Ti Tum Ti. Sung by Mr Liston, in Mr Dibdin's popular comedy, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.
- Description
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Heading to engraved verses: 'Sung by Mr Liston, in Mr T. Dibdins popular Comedy, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.' Liston as Flourish, a Quaker, stands primly, thumbs together, beside Ruth, a Quakeress, who points alluringly to a distant grove, behind him is a signpost with three arms, one inscribed '5. Miles'. He relates his discomfiture by another suitor. The song ends:
'And kick'd me Ruthlessly behind
With his Toe Turn Ti.' 20 September 1806
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1806
- Dimensions
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Height: 159 millimetres (image)
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Height: 259 millimetres (platemark)
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Width: 214 millimetres (image)
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Width: 224 millimetres (platemark)
- $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 title is that of Dibdin's popular comedy, 'full of pun, bustle, and whim' first played at the Haymarket, 9 July 1806, see Genest, viii. 22; Baker, 'Biog. Dram.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1981
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1981,U.216
