Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The boxes.
Call Number
D North 51/GC112/Box 02/Normal/Prints/Titles Ba-Br GA 2014.00113
Identifier
ark:/88435/m613n5708
Publisher
[London] : [s.n.], 1809/12/12.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1809
Extent
1 item ; sheet 36.5 x 25.8 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 167
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: View of the "pigeon-holes" at Drury Lane, as the new gallery in "the house that Jack built" was derisively christened: the present plate offers a burlesque representation of the refined parts of the house, taken possession of by a company more miscellaneous than select. The "rabbit-hutches" at seven shillings, are given up to owls and deaf people. A narrow row below, in which the space is so confined that it is impossible for the spectators to stand upright, is held by Irish cabmen, roughs smoking long clay pipes &c. Below these, in the boudoirs pour la noblesse, we find the servants of the great, dram-drinking, hobanobbing, and flirting.
Depiction: The occupants of the rest of the private boxes are of a ruffianly type. Big sticks and publican's pewter measures are noticeable, besides gentlemen with damaged optics and without coats. A great dog, ladies from St. Gile's, and similarly distinguished members of society. A scene of quarrelling, practical joking, and general uproar is proceeding below.
Inscribed in plate, lower margin: "Woe is me, t'have seen what I have seen seeing what I see. Shakespeare".
Signed in plate, lower right [mirror lettering]: "Opie invt.".
Unsigned by Rowlandson.

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Theater audiences—England—London—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616—Parodies, imitations, etc
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Etiquette—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
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