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

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Title: For the benefit of Joe Miller Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The old batchelor / [graphic]
Alternative Title: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The old batchelor
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, attributed name.
Published / Created: [1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: R. Faulder; and J. Egerton
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).
Description: 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.
Provenance: Old Print Shop; 1959.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 111 x 138 mm.
Language: English

Genre: Tickets
Book illustrations England 1794
Etchings England London 1794
Material: etching ;
Subject (Name): Congreve, William, 1670-1729.
Miller, Joe, 1684-1738.
Subject (Topic): Actors
Fund raising
Theatrical productions
Theaters
Subjects: Congreve, William, 1670-1729
Miller, Joe, 1684-1738
Actors
Fund raising
Theatrical productions
Theaters
England > 1794
England > London > 1794

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