BIB_ID
101887
Accession number
MA 9546
Creator
Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821.
Display Date
[1784-1821?].
Credit line
Purchased, 1891.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 5.6 x 18.7 cm
Notes
The poem is not dated; however, "A Mogul Tale" first appeared on the London stage in 1783-1784.
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Mounted below an engraved portrait of Mrs. Inchbald as Lady Jane Grey.
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Mounted below an engraved portrait of Mrs. Inchbald as Lady Jane Grey.
Provenance
Purchased from Henry Sotheran & Co., London, 1891.
Summary
Being an autograph copy of a four-line poem attributed to an angry priest, Father Paul, condemning Elizabeth Inchbald for a character in her play "A Mogul Tale" who masquerades as a Pope; saying "A Rank Papist Born, and a Rank Papist Bred - / By Penances Humbled - By my Doctrines fed - The Pope you Burlesque to Theatre's Crammed - / Your Farce has been saved - but you will be Damn'd."
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