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...
Description:
Title etched within image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Spiller, James, 1692-1729.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Bailiffs, Jails, City & town life, and Scales
Copy after a Hogarth's design for a frontispiece to a pamphlet against the Hutchinsonians; a witch sitting on top of a crescent moon, pissing a cascade onto the rocks far below, on which lies a bound copy of 'Hutchin', and drowning a group of rats, so...
"A porter carrying a large number of chamber pockets towards a house on the right, walking ahead of a sedan chair, with guards on the steps and others holding back crowds and several figures climbing over a high brick wall running alongside the road t...
Alternative Title:
Peter Necessary with choice of chamber pots
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Chamber pots, Courtyards, Crowds, Sedan chairs, and Soldiers
"A porter carrying a large number of chamber pockets towards a house on the right, walking ahead of a sedan chair, with guards on the steps and others holding back crowds and several figures climbing over a high brick wall running alongside the road t...
Alternative Title:
Peter Necessary with choice of chamber pots
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd April1st, 1786 by W. Dickinson, No. 158, New Bond St.
Subject (Topic):
Chamber pots, Courtyards, Crowds, Sedan chairs, and Soldiers
Portrait after a painted sketch by Hogarth; head and shoulders to right, glancing towards the viewer, wearing a gown with a plain cravat and full-bodied jaw-length wig
Portrait after a painted sketch by Hogarth; head and shoulders to right, glancing towards the viewer, wearing a gown with a plain cravat and full-bodied jaw-length wig
