Pizzaro a New Play or the Drury-Lane Masquerade.
Pubd June 11th 1799 by SW Fores 50 Piccadilly.
Hand coloured etching, 18th century watermark, plate 255 x 410mm (10 x 16"), with small margins. Small holes and abrasions in margins and plate mark. Tears to edges and some light time staining.
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (1751 – 1816), fat and grotesque, dressed as Pizarro leads George III and Charlotte to the Royal box. He holds guttering candles in each hand and belows towards the stage to play God Save the King. George III remarks to Charlotte, "No! no! no Jacobins here all Loyal all Loyal, Charming Man the Author eh! charming Man, never saw him in such a good light before." Three princesses follow; one says: "bless me I never saw that General at Court". Behind are the Dukes of York and Cumberland. On the floor by Sheridan are two papers: 'Maidstone Loyalty' , and '[Tomorr]ow Evening performed a new play called the Loyal Author to which will be added a Peep behind the Curtain Vivan[t] Rex et Regina'. The curtain is down; on the proscenium, replacing the usual 'Veluti in Speculum', is 'Anti Jacobin House'. Charles James Fox (1749–1806) and another man stand in the pit, waving their hats towards the royal box. All the principal Drury Lane singers sang 'God Save the King' before the perfomance, with the Duke of York's (Coldstream) band on the stage. 'Rule Britannia' was sung between Pizarro and the farce ('The Apprentice') and 'God Save the King' was again sung while the King and Queen were leaving the theatre. Sheridan adapted Pizarro (1796) from August von Kotzebue's Spanier in Peru (1796).
BM 9402
[Ref: 56454] £380.00
Hand coloured etching, 18th century watermark, plate 255 x 410mm (10 x 16"), with small margins. Small holes and abrasions in margins and plate mark. Tears to edges and some light time staining.
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (1751 – 1816), fat and grotesque, dressed as Pizarro leads George III and Charlotte to the Royal box. He holds guttering candles in each hand and belows towards the stage to play God Save the King. George III remarks to Charlotte, "No! no! no Jacobins here all Loyal all Loyal, Charming Man the Author eh! charming Man, never saw him in such a good light before." Three princesses follow; one says: "bless me I never saw that General at Court". Behind are the Dukes of York and Cumberland. On the floor by Sheridan are two papers: 'Maidstone Loyalty' , and '[Tomorr]ow Evening performed a new play called the Loyal Author to which will be added a Peep behind the Curtain Vivan[t] Rex et Regina'. The curtain is down; on the proscenium, replacing the usual 'Veluti in Speculum', is 'Anti Jacobin House'. Charles James Fox (1749–1806) and another man stand in the pit, waving their hats towards the royal box. All the principal Drury Lane singers sang 'God Save the King' before the perfomance, with the Duke of York's (Coldstream) band on the stage. 'Rule Britannia' was sung between Pizarro and the farce ('The Apprentice') and 'God Save the King' was again sung while the King and Queen were leaving the theatre. Sheridan adapted Pizarro (1796) from August von Kotzebue's Spanier in Peru (1796).
BM 9402
[Ref: 56454] £380.00