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No full textWatermark: Strasburg Lily and H.D. Relief shown pictorially. Includes 2 inset maps: The harbour of Boston or Massachusetts Bay.--A general map of the coasts & isles of Europe, Africa and America. This map has been conserved through the generosity of Donn & Alma Haglund, 2014.Color1:6,000,00
Le Roi Théodore à Venise, opéra héroï-comique en 2 actes, traduit de l'Italien par M. Moline
No full textTitre uniforme : Paisiello, Giovanni (1740-1816). Compositeur. [Il re Teodoro in Venezia. R 1.66]Présentation musicale : Partit. orch.Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : RISMIm
Le Roi Théodore à Venise, opéra héroï-comique en 2 actes, traduit de l'Italien par M. Moline
No full textTitre uniforme : Paisiello, Giovanni (1740-1816). Compositeur. [Il re Teodoro in Venezia. R 1.66]Présentation musicale : Partit. orch.Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : RISMIm
The life and works of James Miller, 1704-1744, with particular reference to the satiric content of his poetry and plays.
No full textPhDJames Miller was born the son of a Dorset rector in 1704. He
was himself ordained, but acquired no benefice until just before his
early death, probably because of a scathing portrayal of the Bishop
of London in one of his verse satires. At Oxford he wrote a vivacious
comedy of humours, set in the University. Its production in 1730
began his dramatic career, at a time when the number of London
theatres had just doubled, and new dramatic forms were being invented.
In 1731 his poem Harlequin-Horace, a witty inversion of
the Ars Poetica, attacked pantomime and opera, but also painted a
lively portrait of the entire theatrical world, in the tradition of
the Dunciad.
After collaborating in a translation of Moliere's works Miller
wrote two plays based on this author. Of all his dramatic works
these were the most successful with his contemporaries, and were
followed by a modernisation of Much Ado, and a ballad-opera adapted
from an afterpiece by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, and rendered highly
topical. Miller made similar use of a recent French comedy showing
a Red Indian's reactions to civilisation, a satiric "fable" by Walsh
and Voltaire's Mahomet. A large quantity of original material was
incorporated into most of these, and this is generally satirical in
nature. The Indian is made to voice almost egalitarian sentiments.
An afterpiece, "The Camp Visitants", satirised military inaction
in the war, and was apparently banned. The manuscripts of the six
plays produced after the Licensing Act bear the examiner's deletions,
and illustrate the nature of the censorship at this time.
Miller's greatest strength is probably his flexible, vigorously
colloquial dialogue. His political satire is mostly contained in
the poetry, which attacks Walpole's administration with increasing
vehemence through the seventeen-thirties, until its fall. In 1740
two poems that used Pope in symbolic contrast to Walpole caused a
sensation. In both poetry and plays Miller is also a social satirist,
who lays unusually strong emphasis on false taste and the deterioration
of culture
Dama Greca nel suo Appartamento, ca. 1791 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on inscription.; In: Costumes turcs et Polynesia.; Inscriptions: "Dama Greca nel suo Appartamento"--Printed lower left below image; "Dame Grecque dans son Apartement"--Printed lower right below image; "Apud Theodorum Viero, Venetiis"--Printed lower right corner below image.; Rex Nan Kivell Collection, NK10017.; Plates from: Raccolta di stampe ... di varie nazioni, of which 5 plates are of Pacific subjects.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4317785
Donna Mora, ca. 1791 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on inscription.; In: Costumes turcs et Polynesia.; Inscriptions: "Donna Mora"--Printed lower left below image; "Femme Moresque"--Printed lower right below image; "Apud Theodorum Viero, Venetiis"--Printed lower right corner below image.; Rex Nan Kivell Collection, NK10017.; Condition: Slight foxing, repaired tear on lower right corner.; Plates from: Raccolta di stampe ... di varie nazioni, of which 5 plates are of Pacific subjects.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4317868
Kasseki, Officiale dei Bostangi, ca. 1791 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on inscription.; In: Costumes turcs et Polynesia.; Inscriptions: "Kasseki, Officiale dei Bostangi"--Printed lower left below image; "Kasseki, Officier des Bostangis"--Printed lower right below image; "Apud Theodorum Viero, Venetiis"--Printed lower right corner below image.; Rex Nan Kivell Collection, NK10017.; Plates from: Raccolta di stampe ... di varie nazioni, of which 5 plates are of Pacific subjects.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4317721
Dervich dell' Indie, ca. 1791 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on inscription.; In: Costumes turcs et Polynesia.; Inscriptions: "Dervich dell' Indie"--Printed lower left below image; "Dervich des Indes"--Printed lower right below image; "Apud Theodorum Viero, Venetiis"--Printed lower right corner below image.; Rex Nan Kivell Collection, NK10017.; Plates from: Raccolta di stampe ... di varie nazioni, of which 5 plates are of Pacific subjects.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4317732
Donna d'Africa che va per le strade, ca. 1791 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on inscription.; In: Costumes turcs et Polynesia.; Inscriptions: "Donna d'Africa che va per le strade"--Printed lower left below image; "Femme d'Afrique allant par les rues"--Printed lower right below image; "Apud Theodorum Viero, Venetiis"--Printed lower right corner below image.; Rex Nan Kivell Collection, NK10017.; Condition: Slight foxing.; Plates from: Raccolta di stampe ... di varie nazioni, of which 5 plates are of Pacific subjects.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4317880
Affricana in abito di Cerimonia, ca. 1791 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on inscription.; In: Costumes turcs et Polynesia.; Inscriptions: "Affricana in abito di Cerimonia"--Printed lower left below image; "Afriquaine en habit de Cérémonie"--Printed lower right below image; "Apud Theodorum Viero, Venetiis"--Printed lower right corner below image.; Rex Nan Kivell Collection, NK10017.; Condition: Slight foxing.; Plates from: Raccolta di stampe ... di varie nazioni, of which 5 plates are of Pacific subjects.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4317810
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