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    • Title:Theatre Royal [graphic] : April [blank] a comedy with The mock doctor for the benefit of the author of the farce / W. Hogarth ft.
    • Publication:[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1800s?]
    • Physical Description:1 print : etching ; sheet 14.6 x 13 cm
    • Yale Holdings

      • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
      • Call Number: Hogarth 800.00.00.01 Box 140
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Provenance:Purchased through William Reese Company; August 2020.
        Sold at Addison & Sarova Auctioneers, 29 August 2020, lot 73.
      •   Digital version
       
    • Medium:wove paper.
    • Notes:Title etched below image.
      Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
    • Summary:A theater ticket with a scene from the play The mock doctor: Gregory, the mock doctor, holds the Charlotte's wrist, as they look at her father who points to his mouth indicating that she is mute. The print after a forgery purporting to be an admission ticket for a performance of Fielding's The Mock Doctor.
    • Format:Visual Material
    • Subjects:Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754. Mock doctor.
      Benefit performances--England--London.
      Actors.
      Theatrical productions.
      Theaters.
    • Genre/Form:Tickets.
      Etchings--England--London--1800.
    • Also listed under:Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.