File:At a comedy (BM 1873,0712.818).jpg
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[edit]At a comedy
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After: Robert Dighton
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Title |
At a comedy |
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Description |
English: Design in an oval. Eight men (half length, or heads), closely grouped, all but one in profile, grin broadly, gazing intently to the left. One uses an opera-glass, another (in regimentals) a lorgnon. One holds a playbill: '[Thea]tre Royal | Covent Garden | All in good Humour.' The distant boxes and gallery form a background. See BMSat 9098. c.1797
Hand-coloured mezzotint |
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Date |
circa 1797 date QS:P571,+1797-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1873,0712.818 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) A one-act play by W. C. Oulton, acted at the Haymarket (1792), which was, in 1812, still performed occasionally. Baker, 'Biog. Dram.' (Supplementary information) See also the reduced version published by Bowles & Carver' (2010,7081.1627). According to Christopher Lennox-Boyd it is a pair to 'At a Tragedy'. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1873-0712-818 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
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Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Image width | 1,387 px |
Image height | 1,884 px |
Color space | sRGB |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 (20060914.r.77) Windows |
Date and time of digitizing | 09:36, 20 May 2009 |
File change date and time | 09:38, 20 May 2009 |
Date metadata was last modified | 09:38, 20 May 2009 |