File:Big Sam, the Prince's porter, in Cymon. (BM 1868,0808.12501).jpg
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editBig Sam, the Prince's porter, in Cymon.
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Title |
Big Sam, the Prince's porter, in Cymon. |
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Description |
English: A giant wearing pseudo-classical armour raises a club to strike a diminutive woman (right). She attacks him with a spear, holding up a shield. 1 February 1792
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Depicted people | Associated with: Samuel McDonald | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1792 date QS:P571,+1792-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.12501 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) The 'Attic Miscellany' for this date is not in the B.M.L. The plates (BMSats 8179-8182) may have been issued separately. They are in the manner of 'Annibal Scratch'. For 'Big Sam', see BMSat 7905. He appeared as Hercules in 'Cymon' at the request of the Prince of Wales, 'Gent. Mag.' lxxii. 478. Garrick's 'Cymon' was played between thirty and forty times by the Drury Lane company at the Haymarket on and after 31 Dec. 1791. It concluded with a grand procession of the ancient knights of chivalry, and the representation of an ancient tournament, which was (unsuccessfully) burlesqued at Covent Garden. Genest, vii. 47. Reissued, 1 Jan. 1796, 'Carlton House Magazine', iv. 391. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-12501 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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