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...
Alternative Title:
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The old batchelor
Description:
Title from banner at top of image.
Publisher:
R. Faulder; and J. 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:
publisher not identified
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
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 print by J. Sympson, Junr., after W. Hogarth's design. A benefit ticket illustrated with a stage scene from John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera': a prison scene with three men standing and two women on their knees; print after a forgery purportin...
Description:
Title from ribbon at top of image; below "Theatre Royal Covent Garden / Pitt".
Publisher:
R. Faulder and J. Egerton
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732., Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744,, and Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760,
Copy of a print by J. Sympson, Junr., after W. Hogarth's design. A benefit ticket illustrated with a stage scene from John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera': a prison scene with three men standing and two women on their knees; print after a forgery purportin...
Description:
Title from ribbon at top of image; below "Theatre Royal Covent Garden / Pitt".
Publisher:
R. Faulder and J. Egerton
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732., Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744,, and Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760,
"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 th...
Alternative Title:
Ticket for the benefit of Spiller
Description:
Title etched within image.
Publisher:
Samuel Ireland
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Spiller, James, 1692-1729.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Bailiffs, Jails, City & town life, and Scales
"The enormously fat Stephen Kemble, as Hamlet, gesticulates, right arm extended, left arm thrown back, fingers (very large) pointing awkwardly; his head is turned in profile to the left. He wears quasi-contemporary dress, much dishevelled, with a star...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Kemble, Stephen, 1758-1822
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Obesity, and Theatrical productions
Copy of a theatre ticket: a stage scene with six performers, a dog and a cat, and in the background two tightrope walkers accompanied by an ape; within a frame, a satyr on either side; a copy of a forgery purporting to be an admission ticket for a per...
Description:
Title from caption at top of image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Actresses, Aerialists, Cats, Dogs, Satyrs (Greek mythology) in art, and Theatrical productions
Copy of a theatre ticket: a stage scene with six performers, a dog and a cat, and in the background two tightrope walkers accompanied by an ape; within a frame, a satyr on either side; a copy of a forgery purporting to be an admission ticket for a per...
Description:
Title from caption at top of image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Actresses, Aerialists, Cats, Dogs, Satyrs (Greek mythology) in art, and Theatrical productions
