For the benefit of Mr. Walker Theatre Royal Covent Garden / [graphic]

Description

Title: For the benefit of Mr. Walker Theatre Royal Covent Garden / [graphic]
Creator: Sympson, Joseph, -1736, attributed name
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [179-?]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "A stage scene with five performers in Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera'; a prison scene with three men standing and two women on their knees; a forgery purporting to be a benefit ticket for Thomas Walker for his performance as Macheath."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text within ribbon at top of image; remainder of title from text below image.
One of the suppositious 'Sympson' prints whose attributions have long been doubted; see Paulson 1965/60 Appendix I, pages 313-4 for more information.
Dated to the 1790s in the British Museum online catalog, registration no.: Cc,3.122.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Polly portrayed by Lavinia Fenton.
Mounted to 38 x 27 cm.
Bound in before page 159 (leaf numbered '22' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Spence, J. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Provenance: Christie's, lot 285 of Derby sale; 20 October 1953.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 9.8 x 11.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 53 Sp3 820a v.3
Collection Title: Volume 3, before page 159. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Collection / Other Creator: Spence, Joseph, 1699-1768.
Collection Date: London : Published by W.H. Carpenter, Lower Brook Street, and Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh, 1820.