<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Beggars opera [graphic]</dc:title><dc:creator>Stalker, Ebenezer, 1781-1847, printmaker</dc:creator><dc:date>[approximately 1807]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>Illustration to Gay's 'A Beggar's Opera' from 'Inchbald's British Theatre'. An interior scene with a Peachum and Polly administering a drink to Mrs. Peachum, who is lying back with her eyes closed in a chair, having had a fit at learning about the marriage of Polly and Macheath; a fireplace with a fire screen and mantel with jars seen in the background at the right</dc:description><dc:description>Title engraved above image.</dc:description><dc:description>Caption below image: "Polly- Give her another glass, sir. Act 1. Scene 1."</dc:description><dc:description>Publication date from proof in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1854,0513.487.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed within plate mark.</dc:description><dc:description>Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>