For the benefit of Joe Miller [graphic] : Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The old batchelor / W. Hogarth f.

Published/Created:

[London]
[R. Faulder; and J. Egerton]
[1794]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching ; sheet 111 x 138 mm.

Notes:

Title from banner at top of image.
Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London: R. Faulder; and J. Egerton, 1794, opp. p. 128.
See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), p. 315.
Not Hogarth.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Old Print Shop; 1959.

Abstract:

Benefit ticket: a stage scene with four performers in Congreve's 'The Old Bachelor', showing the scene in Act III where Noll receives a kicking from Sharper; print after a forgery purporting to be a benefit ticket for Joe Miller for his performance as Sir Joseph Wittol; illustration to Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth' (1794-1799).

Variant Titles:

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The old batchelor

Associated Names:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Attributed name]

Topics:

Actors
Congreve, William, 1670-1729
Fund raising
Miller, Joe, 1684-1738
Theaters
Theatrical productions

Language:

English

Genre:

Book illustrations -- England -- 1794
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1794
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:

Hogarth 794.00.00.21 Box 120

Orbis Record:

11318420

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22611

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16034719

PID:

digcoll:2810234