Exile, as performed at the royal theatres
Contributors: Tabart and Co
Series: Children's copper plate pictures -- no.50-51; Children's copper plate pictures
Publisher: Published by B. Tabart & Co.
Published: 1809
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Toy and movable books; Specimens
Notes: Verse - "Depriv'd of all save child and wife,".

The lower sheet also has an eight-line 'moral', beginning 'Thus in a distant barren soil'.

A harlequinade (known also as a metamorphoses, flap-book or turn-up book): composed of two single engraved sheets. The first sheet is folded perpendicularly into four sections. A second sheet is cut in half and hinged at the top and bottom edges of the first so that each flap could be lifted separately. The sheets are folded into four, like an accordion, and then roughly stitched with a paper cover (see: Shefrin, 1980). A verse on each section of the flap tells a simple story usually concluding with instructions to turn a flap to continue. When the flap is turned either up or down the viewer sees that half of the new picture fits onto the half of the un-raised flap, so the act of lifting one flap after another creates a surprise unfolding of the story.

Engraved throughout.

Title from caption of first panel. Imprint from panel 3 on upper sheet.

Series title appears above panel 3 on sheet 1, and above panel 2 on sheet 2 - the series number at the foot of each sheet.

Speaight, George. "Harleqinade turn-ups" in Theatre notebook, a journal of the history and technique of the British theatre, 1991, v.44, no.2, p.70-84

Moon, M. Benjamin Tabart's juvenile library, 1990, 35