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 be a benefit ticket for Joe Miller for his performance as Sir Joseph Wittol
Alternative Title:
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The old batchelor
Description:
Title from banner at top of image., Signed in design: W. Hogarth f., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, Whitehall, 1794, vol. i, p. 128., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: £8..8..0; at top of print: 7., and On page 233 in volume 3.
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 be a benefit ticket for Joe Miller for his performance as Sir Joseph Wittol
Alternative Title:
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The old batchelor
Description:
Title from banner at top of image., Signed in design: W. Hogarth f., and Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, Whitehall, 1794, vol. i, p. 128.
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 be a benefit ticket for Joe Miller for his performance as Sir Joseph Wittol
Alternative Title:
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The old batchelor
Description:
Title from banner at top of image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and See: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 315.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Congreve, William, 1670-1729. and Miller, Joe, 1684-1738.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Fund raising, Theatrical productions, and Theaters
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 Sir Joseph Wittol; illustration to Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth' (1794-1799).
Alternative Title:
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The old batchelor
Description:
Title from banner at top of image., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London: R. Faulder; and J. Egerton, 1794, opp. p. 128., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), p. 315., Not Hogarth., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
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 be a benefit ticket for Joe Miller for his performance as Sir Joseph Wittol
Alternative Title:
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The old batchelor
Description:
Title from banner at top of image., Cf. Variant state: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 128., and Signed in design: "W. Hogarth f."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
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 (Henry IV and V) and behind him, on the left-hand side of the stage, a group of actors among whom are Benjamin Johnson as Testimony (in the play, Sir Courtly Nice), Miller as a runner holding a short stick, Benjamin Griffin in a large wig and three-cornered hat, Harper as Falstaff holding a sword twisted into a spiral, Heron holding a banner lettered "Liberty & property", and William Mills wearing a Roman helmet with a huge plume. This group confronts John Highmore who holds a scroll lettered "it cost £6000" (referring to the price of his share of the patent for the Theatre); to the left an actor without coat or wig flourishes a wooden sword. Behind Highmore, stand two women: to the right, weeping, Hester Booth, widow of the former patentee who died on 10 May 1733, and, holding a banner lettered "We'l starve em out", Mary Wilks who had inherited her husband's share of the patent the previous year. In front of the curtain on the extreme right sits Colley Cibber, wearing a laurel wreath and holding money bags, smiling as he gestures towards Highmore who had bought his share of the patent. Behind the curtain can be glimpsed the audience with asses' ears and staves. At the back of the scene is a narrow street with the sign of the Rose on which sits a monkey holding a flag lettered, "I am a Gentleman" (quoting Highmore); crowds throng the street and people wave from the roof and windows of the building on the left."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Ttile etched below image., Date from British Museum catalogue., In Steevens's hand in pencil, at top of page above print: Laguerre's etching; below image: Given me by the Revd Mr. Harper, of the Brit Museum. See the four in the next page & Mr. Nichols Book, 3rd edit. p. 180., and On page 55 in volume 1.
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
