In Wheatley, P. Poems on various subjects, religious and moral (London, 1773), frontispiece., Possibly based on a drawing by Scipio Moorhead., Three-quarter length portrait of writer, seated at a table, with pen in hand; inkwell and book nearby.
Will you come with me, my Billy, into the cellar, near (5 vs. and chor.), Variant: a. Publ. De Marsan (2). De Marsan horned imp border, col. 24.5 x 16 cm., Variant: b. Sheet no. 719; publ. Wrigley (1); [with THE UNION BOYS on recto.] Wrigley horned imp border. 25 x 15.5 cm., Variant: c. Title: "Wait for the Wagon"; 1st line: "Will you come with me my Phillis, dear, to you blue mountain free"; T.o. border, 24.5 x 15.2 cm.
Depicts a building on a street corner identified by a sign that reads, "Frank P. Mellen: Hay Straw and Oats." A horse and cart wait outside., If the gift of eloquence "runs in your family" mayhap it should be attributed to that Philadelphia grandfather who, in his aspiring youth, was a shining light in some one of the once-numerous dramatic coteries of the old town. This building, depicted in its day of humiliation as a storehouse of trade, was known to society as the Amateur Drawing Room. Its site is now occupied by the branch post office upon Seventeenth street, above Chestnut street. It was originally an Episcopal church structure. The Wheatley Dramatic Association, which had long held forth at Fifth and Gaskill streets, removed here in 1865, a period when the stress of war had put an end to other organizations of the kind, and this cosey little theatre was occupied by the "Wheatleys" until they, too, disappeared from the stage in 1881. The "Drawing Room" was much in favor, for a long time, for general entertainment., Taylor Catalog Number: 120
Creator
Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Amusing genre scene depicting three drunk men stumbling arm-in-arm down a city block in front of fenced, wooden scaffolding. The man on the left skips, raises his hat and supports the unconscious man in the middle, who wears a lady's bonnet on his head. The man on the right also supports the bonnet-wearing man while he clings his arm around a lamp post as he holds a long pipe. Playbills and advertisements adorn the wooden fence in front of the scaffolding. The postings promote the National Police Gazette, Wheatley's Arch Street Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, John Drew's National Theatre, the Academy of Music, and steam boat Edwin Forrest of Trenton Capt. McMakin. An African American coach driver, with a whip in hand, watches the frivolity in the background., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 4, Atwater Kent Museum: 54.8.1, Copy with variant title and imprint ["Three in the Morning," Childs, 63 North 2nd St.] held in the collections of the American Antiquarian Society. AAS copy dated ca. 1863, probably 1860.
Amusing genre scene depicting three drunk men stumbling arm-in-arm down a city block in front of fenced, wooden scaffolding. The man on the left skips, raises his hat and supports the unconscious man in the middle, who wears a lady's bonnet on his head. The man on the right also supports the bonnet-wearing man while he clings his arm around a lamp post as he holds a long pipe. Playbills and advertisements adorn the wooden fence in front of the scaffolding. The postings promote "Dan Rice's Great Show. National Theatre Walnut Street above Eighth March 13, 60 ... English Steeple Chase"; "Wheatley's Arch Street Theatre"; "Academy of Music"; and "Steam Boat Edwin Forrest of Trenton Capt. McMakin." A coach driver, with a whip in hand, watches the frivolity in the background., Date supplied by playbill depicted in image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 4.2, American Antiquarian Society: Lithf ChilJ Thre, Copy with variant title and imprint ["3 O'clock in the Morning: 3 uhr Morgens," Childs, 152, late 84 Sth 3rd St.] held in the collections of the Atwater Kent Museum. AKM copy copyrighted 1857., See Public Ledger, March 1860 for advertisements for "Dan Rice's Great Show" at the National Theatre.
Date
[ca. 1860]
Location
American Antiquarian Society|a American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Lithf ChilJ Thre
