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The Rival Queens of Covent Garden and Drury Lane Theatres, at a gymnastic rehearsal!   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The Rival Queens of Covent Garden and Drury Lane Theatres, at a gymnastic rehearsal!
Description
English: A pugilistic encounter between Mrs. Siddons (left) and her rival (right), who face each other with outstretched arms and clenched fists. Behind Mrs. Siddons (left) stands her backer, evidently her husband, holding out a lemon with an anxious expression. A fool's cap is held above her head by a satyr-like creature wearing a fool's cap who leans upon a cloud; in his left hand is a watchman's rattle. Behind her opponent stands her backer, probably her husband, a man wearing a hat, smiling, his hands on his hips, from a cloud above his head a man of dignified appearance with rays projecting from his head holds a laurel wreath over the head of the combatant. Both the actresses are wearing the adaptation of contemporary dress then worn on the stage by tragedy queens; Mrs. Siddons's breast is bare but her rival is decorously clothed. On the extreme left is a group of five spectators, standing below the level of the stage. In the lower margin phrases are etched which are evidently intended to be spoken by the four principals:


William Siddons says, "Sweet wife! you have seen cruel proof of this woman's strength I beg of you for your own sake to embrace your own safety and give over this attempt". Mrs. Siddons says, "Nay, an thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou." Her opponent says, "I will fight with her upon this throne untill my eyelids will no longer wag". Her backer says, "Keep it up Nan! Devil bury me but the Goddess will soon do her over!" c.October/November 1782


Etching
Depicted people Representation of: Ann Barry
Date 1782
date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 250 millimetres
Width: 352 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4548
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

This appears to be the print advertised in a "Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets and Prints, to be had at W. Holland's Museum of Genius, No. 50, Oxford-Street..." in Jordan's 'Elixir of Life', 1789, as "The Rival Queens; or Mrs. S------dons, and Mrs. C---f---d Boxing for the Theatrical Laurel". Mrs. Crawford (1734-1801) or Mrs. Ann Spranger Barry, like Mrs. Yates and Miss Younge (see BMSat 5202), was a rival of Mrs. Siddons. Boaden, 'Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons', i. 300. The original title, however, suggests the rivalry between Mrs. Siddons at Drury Lane and Mrs. Yates (Mary Ann, known as Anna Maria) at Covent Garden during the season 1782-3, when both played the part of Euphrasia in Murphy's 'Grecian Daughter', and an anonymous critic, probably her husband, supported the claims of Mrs. Yates. Mrs. Yates played Euphrasia for the first time on 21 Oct. 1782, Mrs. Siddons on 30 Oct. with her husband as Evander. Ibid. i. 309, 339.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4548
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