| Document Reference | Pw V 332 |
| Title | MS poem satirising opera singer Francesca Cuzzoni; n.d. [c. 1700-1770] |
| Date | n.d. [c. 1700-1770] |
| Extent | 1 f |
| Level | Item/file |
| Content Description | Text consists of 12 lines satirising the Italian opera singer Francesca Cuzzoni (c. 1700-1770) shortly before her departure from England where she had sung for a number of years in Handel's operas at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket.
The poem was appended to a satirical print by George Bickham showing a young lady reclining on a couch (1731). |
| Title Of Work | To Signora Cuzzoni |
| First Line of Poem | Little Syren of ye Stage |
| Last Line of Poem | Leave ye Britons rough & Free |
| Language | English |
| Physical Description | Small quarto
Physical match: Pw V 318 (twin) & Pw V 319 (dimensions, script) & Pw V 320 (dimensions, script) & Pw V 321 (dimensions, script) & Pw V 322 (dimensions, script)
Physical match: Pw V 323 (dimensions, script) & Pw V 324 (dimensions, script) & Pw V 325 (dimensions, script) & Pw V 326 (dimensions, script) & Pw V 327 (dimensions, script) & Pw V 328 (dimensions, script) & Pw V 329 (dimensions, script) & Pw V 330 (dimensions, script) & Pw V 331 (dimensions, script) |
| Condition | Good |
| Descriptive Features | Watermark: Post Horn within ornate shield (fragment), 20 x 52 mm |
| Watermark | Horn (ornate shield) |
| Related Material | Index, ELM III, PhA 9 |
| <a href="http://molcat.bl.uk/">British Library</a>, MS Stowe 972, f 4 |
| University of Nottingham Library: |
| University of Nottingham Library: |
| Publication Note | Philips, Ambrose, Pastorals, Epistles, Odes (London, 1748) |
| M. G. Segar (ed.), The Poems of Ambrose Philips (Oxford, 1937) p 107 |
| Highfill, Burnim and Langhams, IV (Carbondale, Illinois, 1975), pp 117 |
| Elwin and Courthope (eds), Works, X, (1886), p 368 |
| Quoted by Alexander Pope in Martinus Scriblerus |