Details

Related name

• Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811 [Browse]
• Covent Garden Theatre [Browse]
• Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England) [Browse]

Artist

Moses, Henry, 1782?-1870 [Browse]

Printmaker

• Chapman, J. (John), active 1792-1823 [Browse]
• Smith, Anker, 1759-1819 [Browse]

Ill

Hamilton, William, 1751-1801 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Drama [Browse]

Related work(s)

Southerne, Thomas, 1660-1746. Fatal marriage. [Browse]

Contained in

• 19th-century playbooks collection, 1794-1946 (bulk 1800-1920)

Notes

• An alteration of Southerne's ''Fatal marriage'' by David Garrick.
• ''Adapted for theatrical representation, as performed at the Theatres-Royal, Covent-Garden and Drury-Lane. Regulated from the prompt books, by permission of the managers.''
• The frontispiece is signed: H. Moses delt. J. Chapman sculpt.; the second plate is signed: Painted by Hamilton R.A. Engrav'd by A. Smith A.E.
• Charles Cooke worked as a bookseller at 17 Paternoster Row from 1789 to 1817; the printer R. M'Donald, also known as Robert McDonald, printed at 13 Green Arbour Court from 1805 to 1808. Cf. Maxted, I London book trades 1775-1800, p. 50; British Book Trade Index.
• ThX copy is shelved under ''Southerne.''

Provenance

ThX copy has the autograph signature of J.P. Rodick and the ink stamp of the William Seymour Theatre Collection.

Source acquisition

ThX copy is gift of Thorp to the William Seymour Theatre Collection, Princeton University Library.

Other title(s)

• Isabella, or, The fatal marriage
• Fatal marriage

In

19th-century Playbooks Collection

OCLC

781690196

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