<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 Lincolns 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>[1794]</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>Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : R. Faulder and J. Egerton, 1794, v. 1, p. 98.</dc:description><dc:description>Reissued plate with imprint burnished out.</dc:description><dc:description>Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 113.</dc:description><dc:description>Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: Copy by S. Ireland.</dc:description><dc:description>Ms. note in pencil "Pen and ink", applies to the drawing also on this page.</dc:description><dc:description>Printmaker's statement erased from this impression: S.I. ft. erased.</dc:description><dc:description>On page 6 in volume 1. Sheet trimmed to: 15.3 x 11.6 mm.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>