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Title:For the benefit of Joe Miller [graphic] : Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The old batchelor / W. Hogarth ft.
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Publication:[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1800s?]
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Physical Description:1 print : etching ; sheet 10.8 x 15 cm
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
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Call Number: Hogarth 800.00.00.02 Box 140
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Provenance:Purchased through William Reese Company; August 2020.
Sold at Addison & Sarova Auctioneers, 29 August 2020, lot 73.
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Digital version
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
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Medium:wove paper.
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Notes:Title from banner at top of image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
See: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 315.
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Summary: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.
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Variant and related titles:Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The old batchelor
- Format:Visual Material
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Subjects:Congreve, William, 1670-1729. Old batchelour.
Miller, Joe, 1684-1738.
Actors.
Fund raising.
Theatrical productions.
Theaters.
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Genre/Form:Tickets.
Etchings--England--London--1800.
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Also listed under:Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, attributed name.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/15558599