A satire on the Regency crisis of 1788.
Item no. 107 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Sheridan is identified in pencil at foot of sheet.
Print shows Sheridan at left, speaking through a small aperture in the curtain which he holds open, addressing the musicians, some of whom are seen on the right, saying, with a conspiratorial scowl, "D--n em dont play God Save the King". Behind the musicians are the heads of some of the audience in the pit, shouting; a label extending across part of the print (right), inscribed 'Play God save the King', shows their words. In a box are a lady and two men. The print shows the arrangement of footlights, orchestra, pit, and a box on the first tier. Cf. George.