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1. For the benefit of Mr. Walker Theatre Royal Covent Garden / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Sympson, Joseph, -1736, attributed name
- Published / Created:
- [179-?]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 53 Sp3 820a v.3
- Collection Title:
- Volume 3, before page 159. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A stage scene with five performers in Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera'; a prison scene with three men standing and two women on their knees; a forgery purporting to be a benefit ticket for Thomas Walker for his performance as Macheath."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text within ribbon at top of image; remainder of title from text below image., One of the suppositious 'Sympson' prints whose attributions have long been doubted; see Paulson 1965/60 Appendix I, pages 313-4 for more information., Dated to the 1790s in the British Museum online catalog, registration no.: Cc,3.122., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Polly portrayed by Lavinia Fenton., Mounted to 38 x 27 cm., and Bound in before page 159 (leaf numbered '22' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Spence, J. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732., Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744,, and Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760,
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, Actresses, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > For the benefit of Mr. Walker Theatre Royal Covent Garden / [graphic]
2. For the benefit of Mr. Walker Theatre Royal Covent Garden Pit / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Ireland, Anna Maria, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1794]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Copy of a print by J. Sympson, Junr., after W. Hogarth's design. A benefit ticket illustrated with a stage scene from John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera': a prison scene with three men standing and two women on their knees; print after a forgery purporting to be a benefit ticket for Thomas Walker for his performance as Macheath; illustration to Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth'. and "Benefit ticket: a stage scene with five performers in Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera'; a prison scene with three men standing and two women on their knees; print after a forgery purporting to be a benefit ticket for Thomas Walker for his performance as Macheath; illustration to Samuel Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth' (1794-1799)"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from ribbon at top of image; below "Theatre Royal Covent Garden / Pitt"., Signed within image: W. Hogarth invt. / J. Sympson Junr. sculp., After one of the suppositious 'Sympson' prints; see Paulson 1965/60 Appendix I, pages 313-4 for more information., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, v. 1, page 58., Polly portrayed by Lavinia Fenton., Ms. note in pencil Steevens's hand above print: £5.5.0; at top of print: 5., Ms. note beneath print in another hand in pencil: For Graphic illustrations of Hogarth ... its possession of Samuel Ireland, 1794, p. 58., and On page 233 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 11 x 12.7 cm.
- Publisher:
- R. Faulder and J. Egerton
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732., Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744,, and Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760,
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, Actresses, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > For the benefit of Mr. Walker Theatre Royal Covent Garden Pit / [graphic]
3. For the benefit of Mr. Walker Theatre Royal Covent Garden Pit / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Ireland, Anna Maria, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1794]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 794.00.00.49 Impression 1 Box 120
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Copy of a print by J. Sympson, Junr., after W. Hogarth's design. A benefit ticket illustrated with a stage scene from John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera': a prison scene with three men standing and two women on their knees; print after a forgery purporting to be a benefit ticket for Thomas Walker for his performance as Macheath; illustration to Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth'. and "Benefit ticket: a stage scene with five performers in Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera'; a prison scene with three men standing and two women on their knees; print after a forgery purporting to be a benefit ticket for Thomas Walker for his performance as Macheath; illustration to Samuel Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth' (1794-1799)"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from ribbon at top of image; below "Theatre Royal Covent Garden / Pitt"., Signed within image: W. Hogarth invt. / J. Sympson Junr. sculp., After one of the suppositious 'Sympson' prints; see Paulson 1965/60 Appendix I, pages 313-4 for more information., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, v. 1, page 58., and Polly portrayed by Lavinia Fenton.
- Publisher:
- R. Faulder and J. Egerton
- Subject (Name):
- Gay, John, 1685-1732., Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744,, and Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760,
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, Actresses, and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > For the benefit of Mr. Walker Theatre Royal Covent Garden Pit / [graphic]