It is remarkable that, in our artist's copy of this etching, he has added a paint-pot and brushes at the feet of the athletic figure _with a cudgel in his hand_, who appears on the side of _Highmore_.[2] From these circumstances it is evident that _John Ellis_ the painter (a pupil of Sir _James Thornhill_, a great frequenter of _Broughton's_ gymnasium, the stages of other prize-fighters, &c.) was the person designed. _Ellis_ was deputy-manager for Mrs. _Wilks_, and _took up the cudgels_ also for the new patentee. Mr. _Walpole_ observes that _Rysbrack_, when he produced that "exquisite summary of his skill, knowledge, and judgment," the _Hercules_ now in Mr. _Hoare's_ Temple at _Stourhead_, modelled the legs of the God from those of _Ellis_. This statue was compiled from the various limbs and parts of seven or eight of the strongest and best-made men in _London_, chiefly the bruisers, &c. of the then famous amphitheatre in _Tottenham Court road_. In _Banks's_ Works, vol. I. p. 97. is a Poetical Epistle on this print, which alludes to the disputes between the managers of _Drury-Lane_, and such of the actors as were spirited up to rebellion by _Theophilus Cibber_, and seceded to _The Haymarket_ in 1733. _Cibber_ is represented under the character of _Pistol_;[3] _Harper_ under that of _Falstaff_. The figure in the corner was designed for _Colley Cibber_ the Laureat, who had just sold his share in the play-house to Mr. _Highmore_, who is represented holding a scroll, on which is written "it cost £.6000." A monkey is exhibited sitting astride the iron that supports the sign of _The Rose_, a well-known tavern. A label issuing from his mouth contains the words: "_I am a gentleman._"[4] _The Siege of Troy_, upon another show-cloth, was a celebrated droll, composed by _Elkanah Settle_, and printed in 1707; it was a great favourite at fairs. A booth was built in _Smithfield_ this year for the use of _T. Cibber, Griffin, Bullock,_ and _H. Hallam_; at which the Tragedy of _Tamerlane_, with _The Fall of Bajazet_, intermixed with the Comedy of _The Miser_, was actually represented. The figure vaulting on the rope was designed for Signor _Violante_, who signalized himself in the reign of _Geo._ I.; and the tall man exhibited on a show-cloth, was _Maximilian_, a giant from _Upper Saxony_. The man flying from the steeple was one _Cadman_, who, within the recollection of some persons now living, descended in the manner here described from the steeple of _St. Martin's_ into _The Mews_. He broke his neck soon after, in an experiment of the like kind, at _Shrewsbury_, and lies buried there in the churchyard of _St. Mary Friars_, with the following inscription on a little tablet inserted in the church-wall just over his grave.[5] The lines are contemptible, but yet serve to particularize the accident that occasioned his death.