Copy of a benefit ticket whose design was formerly attributed to Hogarth: 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...
Alternative Title:
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The old batchelor
Description:
Title from banner at top of image.
Publisher:
Faulder and Egerton
Subject (Name):
Congreve, William, 1670-1729. and Miller, Joe, 1684-1738.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Fund raising, Theatrical productions, and Theaters
Copy of a benefit ticket whose design was formerly attributed to Hogarth: 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...
Alternative Title:
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The old batchelor
Description:
Title from banner at top of image.
Publisher:
Faulder and Egerton
Subject (Name):
Congreve, William, 1670-1729. and Miller, Joe, 1684-1738.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Fund raising, Theatrical productions, and Theaters
"Satire on the dispute between the managers of the Drury Lane Theatre and its players portrayed as if on a stage with heavy curtains drawn up above and on the right. In the centre, Theophilus Cibber stands in a swaggering pose in his role as Pistol (H...
Description:
Ttile etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England), Bridgwater, Roger, active 1745,, Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757,, Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758,, Ellys, John, 1700 or 1701-1757,, Griffin, Benjamin, 1680-1740,, Harper, John, active 1714-1742,, Heron, Mary, active 1736,, Highmore, John, 1694-1759,, Johnson, Benjamin, 1664 or 1665-1742,, Miller, Joe, 1684-1738,, Mills, John, 1670-1736,, Mills, William, 1701-, Santlow, Hester,, Shaw, Hester,, and Wilks, Mary, active 1740-
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Crowds, Industrial arbitration, People associated with arts, entertainment & sports, and Theaters
A subscription ticket for "A Rakes's Progress"and "Southwark Fair". "The scene is an audience of men and women in a theatre pit, all but one man laughing uproariously; above them in a box, two gentleman ignore the stage in favour of an orange girl an...
