For the benefit of Spiller [graphic] / W. Hogarth delt.

Creator:

Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker

Published/Created:

[London?] :
[publisher not identified],
[not before 1794]

Physical Description:

1 print : engraving ; sheet 116 x 153 mm

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Notes:

Title etched within image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
CtY-LW
Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no 1815.
Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 2.
Title and date supplied by curator.

Abstract:

Benefit Ticket for Spiller: the comedian stands in the center under a set of scales; he supports a burning taper; at his feet is a pile of tickets for his benefit performance labelled 'Pit', 'Gallery', and 'Box'. He offers the tickets to people on the left who put their payment on that side of the balance, while a bailiff on the right taps him on the shoulder, holding out a 'Writ' and creditors add their bills for 'Tripe', 'Gin', Tobacco', 'Snuff', 'Ale', 'Beer' and "The Taylor's bill" to the other side of the balance. A scroll looped over the top of the scales is a banner labelled 'For the Benefit of Spiller', its ends reaching a window of a tavern on the left and the window of a debtor's prison on the right--See description in the British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Actors.
Bailiffs.
City & town life--England--London.
Jails--England--London.
Scales.

Topics:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, attributed name.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--Ownership.
Spiller, James,--1692-1729.
Steevens, George,--1736-1800--Ownership.

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings--England--London--1794.
Etchings--England--London--1788.
Tickets.

Format:

Image

Rights:

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Call Number:

Folio
75
H67
800 v. 1
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)

Orbis Record:

12446728

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr26060i

OID:

16193747

PID:

digcoll:4048179