Volume 3, before page 159. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
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1
Resource Type:
still image
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., and 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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732., Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744,, and Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760,
Volume 3, after page 154. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
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1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Titled and dated by the artist at bottom of image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., and Mounted after page 154 (leaf numbered '2' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Volume 3, after page 162. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
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1
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still image
Description:
Titled and dated by the artist in ink, in lower right corner., Attribution to Daniel Orme from note on verso: I hereby certify this to be a sketch by my late father Daniel Orme of which I have presented to Mr. Ch. Jenkins. [signed] M.A. Holmes[?] late M.A. Orme., and Mounted after page 162 (leaf numbered '25' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Volume 3, after page 162. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Titled and dated by the artist in ink, in lower right corner., Attribution to Daniel Orme from note on verso: I hereby certify this to be a sketch by my late father Daniel Orme of which I have presented to Mr. Ch. Jenkins. [signed] M.A. Holmes[?] late M.A. Orme., and Mounted after page 162 (leaf numbered '25' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Volume 3, after page 214. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Depiction of the monument to John Gay in Westminster Abbey; a sculptural bust of Gay, in profile to the right, sits in an oval and rests on a plinth supported by a cherub to the left, who drapes a cloth over the right side of the oval. An obelisk with ornaments is behind, all beneath an arch supported by columns. A memorial by Alexander Pope is inscribed on the plinth, and a dedication from the Duke and Duchess of Queensberry is inscribed at the bottom of the monument
Description:
Titled devised by curator., Signed by the artist in lower right corner., Possibly a design drawing for an engraving with the signatures "H. Gravelot delin." and "J. Scotin sculp." and the publication line "Publish'd Sep. 29, 1738, by J. & P. Knapton & T. Cox". This plate was issued as the frontispiece to: Fables. By the late Mr. Gay. Volume the second. London : Printed for J. and P. Knapton, and T. Cox, 1738., and Mounted after page 214 (leaf numbered '108' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
