The boxes, O woe is me, t'have seen what I have seen seeing what I see - Shakespear [graphic] / Opie, invt.

The boxes, O woe is me, t'have seen what I have seen seeing what I see - Shakespear [graphic] / Opie, invt.

[London, England] : Pud. by T. Rowlandson, no. 1 James St., Adelphi, Decr. 12, 1809.

1 print : hand-colored etching ; image 279 x 186 mm

paper

A view of a narrow section of the auditorium of Covent Garden theatre. The audience is proletarian. In the third tier (the hated 'Private Boxes') couples kiss or drink together; there are two fat liveried servants. Occupants of the two lower tiers are rowdily ill-mannered. There are various decorative emblems on the spaces between the boxes: A cupid and a large key (see No. 11421), bull's horns enclosed in a wreath, a cock and a hare, a satyr fighting with women, and, above the lowest tier, a fat man dragging an unwilling ass, inscribed 'From N to O [New Prices to Old] Jack [Kemble] you must Go'.--Adapted from George.

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Cartoon about the O.P. war is described in BM cat. of political & personal satires, VIII, no. 11433. Attributed to Rowlandson. The signature "Opie", printed in reverse, is a reference to the initials O.P.

George, VIII, no. 11433

Great Britain -- England -- London.

ART File C277 no.6 (size S)

Purchase made possible by Cameron J. LaClair, Jr.

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Scrapbook A.16.4 fol.159v