Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either side of him, his wife and lover are kneeling before their respective fathers, pleading for intervention on Macheath's behalf; in the background, a group of male figures (Macheath's gang?).
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Dobson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., To the left of the imprint statement: Size of the picture 24 i. by 30 i. long., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Not in Nichols's book., and On page 221 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 46.1 x 58.2 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1st, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall, London
Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either side of him, his wife and lover are kneeling before their respective fathers, pleading for intervention on Macheath's behalf; in the background, a group of male figures (Macheath's gang?).
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Dobson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., To the left of the imprint statement: Size of the picture 24 i. by 30 i. long., Formerly laid in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., and Sheet trimmed to 45.6 x 58.3 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1st, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall, London
Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either side of him, his wife and lover are kneeling before their respective fathers, pleading for intervention on Macheath's behalf; in the background, a group of male figures (Macheath's gang?).
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Dobson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., To the left of the imprint statement: Size of the picture 24 i. by 30 i. long., Mounted on page 210 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : engraving on wove paper ; sheet 44 x 54.2 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1st, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall, London
Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either side of him, his wife and lover are kneeling before their respective fathers, pleading for intervention on Macheath's behalf; in the background, a group of male figures (Macheath's gang?). Each figure is numbered and listed below under the appropriate category -- performers or audience
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., and Key plate to the painting by Hogarth and the engraving after it by William Blake.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Actresses, Audiences, and Theatrical productions
Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either side of him, his wife and lover are kneeling before their respective fathers, pleading for intervention on Macheath's behalf; in the background, a group of male figures (Macheath's gang?). Each figure is numbered and listed below under the appropriate category -- performers or audience
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Key plate to the painting by Hogarth and the engraving after it by William Blake., and On page 235 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: plate mark 14.5 x 21.9 cm, on sheet 15.4 x 22.7 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Actresses, Audiences, and Theatrical productions
Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either side of him, his wife and lover are kneeling before their respective fathers, pleading for intervention on Macheath's behalf; in the background, a group of male figures (Macheath's gang?). Each figure is numbered and listed below under the appropriate category -- performers or audience
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Key plate to the painting by Hogarth and the engraving after it by William Blake., Mounted on page 162 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 14.6 x 22 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Annotated by Horace Walpole in pencil in lower right corner: Some of the figures in the boxes are different from those in Mr. Walpole's picture.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Actresses, Audiences, and Theatrical productions
Illustration to Gay's 'A Beggar's Opera' from 'Inchbald's British Theatre'. An interior scene with a Peachum and Polly administering a drink to Mrs. Peachum, who is lying back with her eyes closed in a chair, having had a fit at learning about the marriage of Polly and Macheath; a fireplace with a fire screen and mantel with jars seen in the background at the right
Description:
Title engraved above image., Caption below image: "Polly- Give her another glass, sir. Act 1. Scene 1.", Publication date from proof in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1854,0513.487., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Longman & Co.
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Fireplaces, Interiors, and Loss of consciousness
Volume 1, page 23. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman sitting in a boat, waving as her dog looks longingly towards the right, a man rowing at left, land and ships on the sea behind; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker attribution to Charles Knight from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1906,0419.120., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Illustration to John Gay's poem 'Sweet William's farewell to black-ey'd Susan'., Two lines of verse etched below title: Her less'ning boat, unwilling rows to land; Adieu! she cries, and wav'd her lily hand. Gay., Companion print to: Blouzelind., Temporary local subject terms: Ballads., and Mounted on page 23 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 1st, 1792, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
Volume 2, page 83. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman sitting beside a spinning wheel in a field, pinning a corsage of flowers at her breast, a dog curled up asleep at her feet, behind at right two figures, one on horseback, travel along a path towards a tower in the distance; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Printmaker attribution to Charles Knight from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1878,0511.831., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., The name "Gay" follows title, etched in small letters., Illustration to John Gay's poem 'The shepherd's week'., Companion print to: Black-eyed Susan., and Mounted on page 83 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 1st, 1792, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1781]
Call Number:
Bunbury 781.03.01.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young woman is sitting at a spinning wheel, her staff and hat on the ground in front of her and a dog asleep beside her. She is putting on a bunch of flowers. In the distance is a man on horseback, a tower, and a hill
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title: The peerless maid that did all maids excel. Gay., Illustration for John Gay's poem 'The shepherd's week'., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Quotation from The shepherd's week, by John Gay, 1685-1732., and Later printing. Date of printing based on watermark: J. Ruse 1799.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1 March 1781 by I. Bretherton, New Bond Street
"A woman sitting on a stool in a landscape, looking up from her writing, upon a wedge on her lap, a cat reaching up to her knee for attention at left, a man packing a gun through a fence beside a house at right, a tower and woods in the distance beyond at left; circular design after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., For an earlier state, published 12 November 1781 by J. Baldrey and sold by R. Wilkinson, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3003., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One line of quoted text below title: "The rival of the parson's maid was she." Gay., Companion print to: Marian., Plate numbered "6" above image., and Mounted on page 33 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 25, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Volume 3, before page 159. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
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,
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 purporting to be a benefit ticket for Thomas Walker for his performance as Macheath; illustration to Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth'. and "Benefit ticket: 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; print after a forgery purporting to be a benefit ticket for Thomas Walker for his performance as Macheath; illustration to Samuel Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth' (1794-1799)"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from ribbon at top of image; below "Theatre Royal Covent Garden / Pitt"., Signed within image: W. Hogarth invt. / J. Sympson Junr. sculp., After one of the suppositious 'Sympson' prints; see Paulson 1965/60 Appendix I, pages 313-4 for more information., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, v. 1, page 58., Polly portrayed by Lavinia Fenton., Ms. note in pencil Steevens's hand above print: £5.5.0; at top of print: 5., Ms. note beneath print in another hand in pencil: For Graphic illustrations of Hogarth ... its possession of Samuel Ireland, 1794, p. 58., and On page 233 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 11 x 12.7 cm.
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 purporting to be a benefit ticket for Thomas Walker for his performance as Macheath; illustration to Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth'. and "Benefit ticket: 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; print after a forgery purporting to be a benefit ticket for Thomas Walker for his performance as Macheath; illustration to Samuel Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth' (1794-1799)"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from ribbon at top of image; below "Theatre Royal Covent Garden / Pitt"., Signed within image: W. Hogarth invt. / J. Sympson Junr. sculp., After one of the suppositious 'Sympson' prints; see Paulson 1965/60 Appendix I, pages 313-4 for more information., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, v. 1, page 58., and Polly portrayed by Lavinia Fenton.
Publisher:
R. Faulder and J. Egerton
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732., Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744,, and Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760,
Volume 2, page 80. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A kneeling woman reads the palm of a girl standing at left in travelling clothes with a basket on her arm, two others watching, leaning on a fence behind, children and a dog sitting beside a fire at right, over which a large pan hangs; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Fourteen lines of verse below image, seven on either side of title: Last Friday's eve, when, as the sun was set, I, near yon stile, three sallow gipsies met ... Vide Gay's Pastorals., and Mounted on page 80 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 20, 1791, by Thos. Macklin, Poets' Gallery, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Baskets, Fences, Children, Dogs, Campfires, and Pots & pans
White, Charles William, active 1775-1807, printmaker
Published / Created:
[28 March 1783]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 2, page 10. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young woman standing whole-length to front in a checked skirt, head turned in profile to left and wearing a bonnet, holding a straw hat in her right hand and the other resting at her waist; after a drawing by Henry William Bunbury, first state before plate reduced to an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Two lines of verse below title: The patten now supports each frugal dame, which from the blue eyd Patty takes the name., "Gays Poems"--Lower right corner of plate., Illustration to John Gay's Trivia, or, The art of walking the streets of London., and Mounted on page 10 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published Marh. the 28th, 1783, by C.W. White, Kemps Row, Chelsea
Titles from text above each design., Six designs on one plate, each individually titled., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
From the left a well-dressed maiden pulls a length of twine from around the right stocking of a country boy who sleeps on a grassy bank under four large, leafy trees. The eight lines of Gay's poem Shepherd's week quoted on either side of the title describe her intention of joining the twine to her garter to form "a true loves knot."
Alternative Title:
Hobnelia
Description:
Title from item., Publication date following the phrase "Publish'd as the Act directs" has been burnished from plate., Numbered '506' in lower left of plate., Dated tentatively from plate number. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, Appendix, p. 786-7: Key to the dates of the series of mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles., and Four lines in two columns on either side of the title: As Lubberkin once slept beneath a tree ... from the favourite Pastoral of Gay's Shepherd's work.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Benefit ticket for William Milward, for his performance of Colonel Feignwell, in Centlivre's 'A Bold Stroke for a Wife' at Lincoln's Inn in 1728; illustrated with a scene from Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera' with Lockit, Lucy, Macheath, and Polly Peachum in a jail cell; illustration to Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth' (1794-1799).
Alternative Title:
Benefit ticket for Milward
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 112.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st May 1788 by Molton & Co., 132 Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Milward, William, 1702-1742. and Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Tracing of a benefit ticket for William Milward, for his performance of Colonel Feignwell, in Centlivre's 'A Bold Stroke for a Wife' at Lincoln's Inn in 1728; illustrated with a scene from Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera' with Lockit, Lucy, Macheath, and Polly Peachum in a jail cell
Alternative Title:
Benefit ticket for Milward
Description:
Title etched below image., Possibly a tracing by Ireland., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 112., Ms. note in pencil lower right corner of print: 66. Ms. notes in pencil above: See Nichol's Book, 3d Edit, p. 423. Ms. note in pencil below: sold for £7.7.0., and On page 6 in volume 1.
Subject (Name):
Milward, William, 1702-1742. and Gay, John, 1685-1732.
