<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Theatre Royal Lincoln's Inn Fields Tuesday Aprill [sic] 23 A bold stroke for a wife, wth [sic] entertainments for [the] benefit of Mr. Milward [graphic]</dc:title><dc:creator>Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker</dc:creator><dc:date>[1 May 1788]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>Benefit ticket for William Milward, for his performance of Colonel Feignwell, in Centlivre's 'A Bold Stroke for a Wife' at Lincoln's Inn in 1728; illustrated with a scene from Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera' with Lockit, Lucy, Macheath, and Polly Peachum in a jail cell; illustration to Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth' (1794-1799).</dc:description><dc:description>Title etched below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed within plate mark.</dc:description><dc:description>Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 112.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>