And there were rapid paintings, such as press
On those who ply the arts, with choking size,
Which ne’er might be completed! Who could guess
How all would look before the public eyes,
When on that “Street in Brussels” the act drop would rise!
From George Cruikshank’s Comic Almanack, 1846.
A Farewell to Jenny Lind, after the Farewell to Thomas Moore, in five verses, appeared in Punch, September, 1848, and a long parody entitled “The Battle of the Opera,” in Punch, May 19, 1849, commenced thus:—
“There was a sound—’tis Jenny Lind’s last night!
And England’s capital had gathered then,