Selected Bibliography:
Barchas, Janine. Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Barker, Hannah, and Simon Burrows. “Introduction,” In Press, Politics and the Public Sphere in Europe and North America, 1760-1820. Hannah Barker and Simon Burrows, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 1-22.
Barlow, Jeremy. The Enraged Musician: Hogarth's Musical Imagery. Aldershot, Hampshire, England & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005.
Bennett, Tony. “The Exhibitionary Complex.” In The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader. Edited by Vanessa Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski. (London: Routledge, 2004), 117-29.
Bolter, J. D., and Richard A. Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1999.
Crow, Thomas E. Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
Dart, Gregory. “‘Flash Style’: Pierce Egan and Literary London 1820-28,” History Workshop Journal 51 (2001): 181-205.
Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe, Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
Eliot, Simon, and Jonathan Rose. A Companion to the History of the Book. Malden, MA & Oxford: Blackwell Pub, 2007.
Fort, Bernadette.“Voice of the Public: The Carnivalization of Salon Art in Prerevolutionary Pamphlets.”Eighteenth-Century Studies 22, no. 3 (Special Issue: The French Revolution in Culture, Spring, 1989): 368-394.
Golden, Catherine J. Posting It: The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2009.
Habermas, Jürgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Trans. Thomas Burger. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991.
Halsey, Katie, and Jane Slinn. The Concept and Practice of Conversation in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1688-1848. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
Johns, Adrian. The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
McLuhan, Marshall. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962.
Sechelski, Denise S. “Garrick’s Body and the Labor of Art in Eighteenth-Century Theater.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 29, no. 4 (Summer 1996): 369-389.
Solkin, David H. Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780-1836. New Haven, Conn.: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Courtauld Institute Gallery by Yale University Press, 2001.
Uphaus, Robert W. “The Ideology of Reynolds’ Discourses on Art,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 12, no. 1 (Autumn, 1978): 59-73.
Wanko, Cheryl. “Three Stories of Celebrity: The Beggar’s Opera ‘Biographies’.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 38, no. 3 (Summer, 1998): 481-498.
Items in the Exhibition:
- Bourne, Herbert, b. 1820. Garrick and his wife : from the picture in the Royal Collection, 1757. Hand-coloured etching and engraving.
- Catalogues de ventes et livrets de salons illustrés par Gabriel de Saint-Aubin / introduction et notices par Emile Dacier. Paris : Société de reproduction des dessins de maîtres, 1909-1921.
- Centlivre, Susanna, 1667?-1723. The wonder ! : a woman keeps a secret : a comedy / written by Mrs. Centlivre. London : Printed for W. Lowndes, S. Bladon, and W. Nicoll, 1787.
- Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790. David Garrick, Esq. King’s Arms, Paternoster Row : J. Hinton, [1776]. Etching and engraved plate from The Universal Magazine.
- Egan, Pierce, 1772-1849. Life in London, or, The day and night scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their rambles and sprees through the metropolis / by Pierce Egan ; embellished with thirty-six scenes from real life, designed and etched by I.R. & G. Cruikshank, and enriched also with numerous designs on wood by the same artists. London : Printed by C. Baynes ... for G. Virtue, [1821?]
- Gay, John, 1685-1732. The beggar's opera / written by Mr. Gay. London : Printed for John Watts ..., 1742.
- Gay, John, 1685-1732. The beggar's opera : as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields / written by Mr. Gay ... ; to which is added the musick engrav'd on copper plates. London : Printed for John Watts ..., 1728.
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. The enraged musician. November 30th, 1741. Etching and engraving.
- Howard, Henry, 1769-1847. [Request] 1825 May 11, Royal Academy [London, to] C. Rossi [London].
Engraved document, filled in manuscript.
- Howard, Henry, 1769-1847. [Request] 1825 May 11, Royal Academy [London, to] C. Rossi [London].
Engraved document, filled in manuscript.
- Ibels, Henri-Gabriel, 1867-1936. Programme du 8e spectacle de la saison 1892-1893. Eugène Verneau. Colour lithograph on ivory wove paper.
- Le théâtre anglois. A Londres [i.e. Paris?] : [s.n.], 1746-1749.
- Notice des principaux tableaux recueillis dans la Lombardie / par les commissaires du gouvernement français ; dont l'exposition provisoire aura lieu dans le grand salon du Muséum, les octidi, nonidi et décadi de chaque décade, à compter du 18 pluviôse, jusqu'au 30 prairial, an VI ; dédiée à l'armée d'Italie. [Paris] : De l'Imprimerie des sciences et arts, [1798].
- O'Keeffe, John, 1747-1833. Modern antiques, or, The merry mourners : a farce in two acts / by John O'Keeffe ... : printed from the acting copy, with remarks biographical and critical by D.-G. ... as now performed at the Theatres Royal, London : embellished with a fine engraving by Mr. Bonner, from a drawing taken in the theatre by R. Cruikshank. London : John Cumberland ..., [18--]
- Opie, John, 1761-1807. Lectures on painting : delivered at the Royal Academy of Arts: with a letter on the proposal for a public memorial of the naval glory of Great Britain / To which are prefixed, a memoir by Mrs. Opie, and other accounts of Mr. Opie's talents and character. London : Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1809.
- Pingo, Lewis, 1743-1830. D. Garrick. [London] : Thomas Davies, 1780. Etching and engraving with stipple.
- Playbill announcing John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera. Presented Tuesday, December 10th, 1839 at Drury Lane. London : R. Francis, 1839.
- Playbill of Mr. Pigott’s Grand Concert. Belfast: Macaulay and Quin, [1842].
- Program of Mr. Pigott’s Grand Concert. Belfast: Macaulay and Quin, [1842].
- Real life in London, or, The rambles and adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and his cousin, the Hon. Tom. Dashall, through the metropolis : exhibiting a living picture of fashionable characters, manners, and amusements in high and low life / by an amateur ; embellished and illustrated with a series of coloured prints, designed and engraved by Messrs. Heath, Alken, Dighton, Rowlandson &c. London : Printed for Jones and Co., 1821-1822.
- Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792. Self portrait. London : R. Holdgate, [1854].
- Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792. Seven discourses delivered in the Royal Academy : by the President. --. London : Printed for T. Cadell, 1778.
- Sly, Richard Evan. Garrick and Hogarth, or, the artist puzzled. London : R.E. Sly and T. Houston, 1845. Hand-coloured lithograph.
- Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833. The Old Theatre, Drury Lane : this front which stood in Bridges Street, was built by order of Mr. Garrick, previous to parting with his share of the Theatre. St. Martin’s Lane : N. Smith, 1794. Etching and engraving.
- Thiers, Adolphe, 1797-1877. Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire : faisant suite à l'Histoire de la Révolution française / par M.A. Thiers. Paris : Paulin, 1845-1874 (Paris : Plon)
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), ca. 1760-1809. The Genii of caricature bringing in fresh supplies. London : T. Tegg, [1809-1821], hand-coloured etching.