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Blowing up the PIC NIC's; - or - Harlequin Quixotte attacking the Puppets. Vide TottenhamsStreetPantomime\nPublish'd April 2.d 1802, by H. Humphrey, S.t James' Street\no 16th,/ London 6th April 1802./ Sheridan has all the opposition papers mentioned here on his/ side and probably sends them articles against the Picnics/ himself. Persons: Sheridan as Harlequin/ John Kemble as Hamlet; beside him sister Siddons;/ the grin-face is Lewis Director of Coventgarden-theatre; finally/ the Billington./ Below, Garrick rises from his grave/ The piquenique consists of the fat Countess of/ Buckinghamshire; the scrawny face just beside her is Lady Salis/ -bury; the officer with the long face is Obrist Greville himself;/ the tall man the Earl of Cholmondeley (Tschomli); at the table/ sits Lord Mount Edgecumbe./ Tom Thumb a well-known play by Fielding, trans- formed and accompanied with songs by O'Hara in 1780 at Coventgarden where/ it was much liked./ The crowns at the bottom of the theatre indicate the/ rank of the company. Each lord bears a \"coronet\" in his coat of arms.\n\a box of books went to/ friend at the Custom House yesterday. I'll send you the catalogue in the next mail.
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Title: Blowing up the pic nic's
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Blowing up the PIC NIC's; - or - Harlequin Quixotte attacking the Puppets.
Vide TottenhamsStreetPantomime\nPublish'd April 2.
d 1802, by H.
Humphrey, S.
t James' Street\no 16th,/ London 6th April 1802.
/ Sheridan has all the opposition papers mentioned here on his/ side and probably sends them articles against the Picnics/ himself.
Persons: Sheridan as Harlequin/ John Kemble as Hamlet; beside him sister Siddons;/ the grin-face is Lewis Director of Coventgarden-theatre; finally/ the Billington.
/ Below, Garrick rises from his grave/ The piquenique consists of the fat Countess of/ Buckinghamshire; the scrawny face just beside her is Lady Salis/ -bury; the officer with the long face is Obrist Greville himself;/ the tall man the Earl of Cholmondeley (Tschomli); at the table/ sits Lord Mount Edgecumbe.
/ Tom Thumb a well-known play by Fielding, trans- formed and accompanied with songs by O'Hara in 1780 at Coventgarden where/ it was much liked.
/ The crowns at the bottom of the theatre indicate the/ rank of the company.
Each lord bears a \"coronet\" in his coat of arms.
\n\a box of books went to/ friend at the Custom House yesterday.
I'll send you the catalogue in the next mail.
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