Popular Regency actor John Emery singing the comic song John Grouse and Mother Goose at Covent Garden Theatre, London, 1808. The actor sings in the stalls in the audience, while the orchestra plays in the pit, and a witch-like Mother Goose acts on stage. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Isaac and George Cruikshank from The Cruikshankian Momus, Pictorial Broadsides and Humorous Song-Headings, John C. Nimmo, London, 1892.

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