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    • Title:For the benefit of Joe Miller [graphic] : Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The old batchelor / W. Hogarth ft.
    • Publication:[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1800s?]
    • Physical Description:1 print : etching ; sheet 10.8 x 15 cm
    • Yale Holdings

      • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
      • Call Number: Hogarth 800.00.00.02 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 from banner at top of image.
      Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
      See: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 315.
    • 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.
    • Variant and related titles:Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The old batchelor
    • Format:Visual Material
    • Subjects:Congreve, William, 1670-1729. Old batchelour.
      Miller, Joe, 1684-1738.
      Actors.
      Fund raising.
      Theatrical productions.
      Theaters.
    • Genre/Form:Tickets.
      Etchings--England--London--1800.
    • Also listed under:Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, attributed name.