For the benefit of Joe Miller Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The old batchelor / [graphic]

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Title: For the benefit of Joe Miller Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The old batchelor / [graphic]
Alternative Title: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The old batchelor
Creator: Ireland, John, -1808, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Faulder and Egerton
Abstract: 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
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.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 15.4 x 22.7 cm
Language: English

Genre: Tickets
Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1794
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching ;
Subject (Name): Congreve, William, 1670-1729.
Miller, Joe, 1684-1738.
Subject (Topic): Actors
Fund raising
Theatrical productions
Theaters
Subjects: Congreve, William, 1670-1729
Miller, Joe, 1684-1738
Actors
Fund raising
Theatrical productions
Theaters
England > London > 1794
18th century
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

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