Record ID:
412138
Accession number:
MA 9563
Credit:
Purchased, 1891.
Description:
1 item (4 pages) ; 30.1 x 18.8 cm
Notes:
The poem is unsigned and undated. Based on its provenance and its subject matter, it may have been written or performed by the actor and theater manager R. W. Elliston, but this cannot be confirmed. It was certainly written after the publication of the book to which its title and content alludes, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, in 1759.
This is a fair copy with an elaborate calligraphic title.
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Summary:
Being a poem of 68 lines, describing different types of people (politicians, soldiers, women, dreamers, etc) and their "hobby horses"; concluding with characterizations of theater managers ("They ride their Hobbies & their Actors too") and actors.
Provenance:
Purchased from Henry Sotheran & Co., London, 1891.
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