Theatre Royal Lincoln's Inn Fields Tuesday Aprill [sic] 23 A bold stroke for a wife, wth [sic] entertainments for [the] benefit of Mr. Milward [graphic] / etch'd by S. Ireland from a very scarce print by Hogarth in his collection.

Published/Created:

London
Publish'd 1st May 1788 by Molton & Co., 132 Pall Mall
[1 May 1788]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 178 x 128 mm.

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 112.
Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., Edinburgh; August 1940; £20 Kinnaird lot. With Kinnaird bookplate; disbound at Yale
Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).

Abstract:

Benefit ticket for William Milward, for his performance of Colonel Feignwell, in Centlivre's 'A Bold Stroke for a Wife' at Lincoln's Inn in 1728; illustrated with a scene from Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera' with Lockit, Lucy, Macheath, and Polly Peachum in a jail cell; illustration to Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth' (1794-1799).

Variant Titles:

Benefit ticket for Milward

Associated Names:

Ireland, Samuel, -1800 [Printmaker]
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Artist]

Topics:

Gay, John, 1685-1732
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826
Milward, William, 1702-1742

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1788
Tickets

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

Kinnaird 86K(h) Box 125

Orbis Record:

9815055

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22476

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16030815

PID:

digcoll:2807319