Lot 192
Dancing Dogs.- Opera.- Murphew (J.) The fair in an uproar, or, the dancing-doggs. As they perform in Mr. Pinkeman's New Opera in Bartholomew Fair, 1707.
Hammer Price: £3,000
Description
Dancing Dogs.- Opera.- Murphew (J., publisher) The fair in an uproar, or, the dancing-doggs. As they perform in Mr. Pinkeman's New Opera in Bartholomew Fair, satirical broadside poem with engraving and two columns of letterpress text, on laid paper without watermark, sheet 332 x 219 mm. (13 1/8 x 8 5/8 in), left edge reinforced verso, minor nicks and hangling creases, unframed, 'Printed and Sold by J. Morphew, near Stationers Hall. Price 2 d. Beware of the Wretched Halpenny Wooden Cuts', [1707].
Literature:
Foxon F29
⁂ ESTC records only one copy in the Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois. William Pinkethman's dogs, dressed as Frenchified fops or commedia dell'arte characters, illustrate the present broadside satire, which 'warns of the cultural consequences of condescending to the public's lust for "Novelty"', yet at the same time acknowledging the inevitable financial success of such a venture; John Downes wrote that Pinkethman "gain'd more in Theatres and Fairs in Twelve Years, than those that have Tugg'd at the Oar of Acting these 50." [Domingo, Darryl, 'The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature and Culture, 1690-1760', 2016, p. 45]
Description
Dancing Dogs.- Opera.- Murphew (J., publisher) The fair in an uproar, or, the dancing-doggs. As they perform in Mr. Pinkeman's New Opera in Bartholomew Fair, satirical broadside poem with engraving and two columns of letterpress text, on laid paper without watermark, sheet 332 x 219 mm. (13 1/8 x 8 5/8 in), left edge reinforced verso, minor nicks and hangling creases, unframed, 'Printed and Sold by J. Morphew, near Stationers Hall. Price 2 d. Beware of the Wretched Halpenny Wooden Cuts', [1707].
Literature:
Foxon F29
⁂ ESTC records only one copy in the Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois. William Pinkethman's dogs, dressed as Frenchified fops or commedia dell'arte characters, illustrate the present broadside satire, which 'warns of the cultural consequences of condescending to the public's lust for "Novelty"', yet at the same time acknowledging the inevitable financial success of such a venture; John Downes wrote that Pinkethman "gain'd more in Theatres and Fairs in Twelve Years, than those that have Tugg'd at the Oar of Acting these 50." [Domingo, Darryl, 'The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature and Culture, 1690-1760', 2016, p. 45]
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