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1.
At the Theatre Margate. On Friday the thirtieth of September, will be presented The beggar's opera

Creator:
Theatre Royal (Margate, England), associated name
Published / Created:
[1776?]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B K41
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
For the benefit of Mr. W. Browne, & Mrs. Bolingbrooke. By a company of comedians
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., From a bound collection of playbills: [A collection of playbills for theatres in Kent, 1771-1784?]. [England], [between 1771 and 1784?]., and Numbered in ms.
Publisher:
Theatre Margate
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732. and Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > At the Theatre Margate. On Friday the thirtieth of September, will be presented The beggar's opera ... : to which will be added an entertainment; call'd The citizen ...

2.
At the theatre Margate. On Friday the 10th of October, will be presented The beggar's opera

Creator:
Theatre Royal (Margate, England), associated name
Published / Created:
[1776?]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B K41
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Last benefit, by particular desire of several ladies & gentlemen, Mr. Massey, & company's, night. The whole to be accompany'd by the assembly band of music
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., From a bound collection of playbills: [A collection of playbills for theatres in Kent, 1771-1784?]. [England], [between 1771 and 1784?]., and Numbered in ms.
Publisher:
Theatre Margate
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > At the theatre Margate. On Friday the 10th of October, will be presented The beggar's opera ... : to which will be added, a pantomime entertainment call'd The funeral, or, Harlequin among the rocks ...

3.
At the theatre in Canterbury, on Monday next, August 10, 1778, will be presented (with the

Published / Created:
[1778]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B K41
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
For the benefit of Mrs. Wilson. By his Majesty's servants
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., From a bound collection of playbills: [A collection of playbills for theatres in Kent, 1771-1784?]. [England], [between 1771 and 1784?]., and Numbered in ms.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732. and Wycherley, William, 1640-1716.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > At the theatre in Canterbury, on Monday next, August 10, 1778, will be presented (with the additional songs composed last season by Dr. Arne) The beggar's opera ... : to which will be revived a comedy of two acts, called The country wife, as performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, with universal applause ...

4.
At the theatre in Canterbury, this present evening, July 30, will be presented, The beggar's opera

Published / Created:
[1776?]
Call Number:
Folio 767 P69B K41
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
By his Majesty's servants
Description:
Caption title., A playbill., From a bound collection of playbills: [A collection of playbills for theatres in Kent, 1771-1784?]. [England], [between 1771 and 1784?]., and Numbered in ms.
Publisher:
Printed by Smith and Son
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732. and Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > At the theatre in Canterbury, this present evening, July 30, will be presented, The beggar's opera ... : to which will be added, a farce, called The mock doctor ...

5.
Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1 July 1790]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either side of him, his wife and lover are kneeling before their respective fathers, pleading for intervention on Macheath's behalf; in the background, a group of male figures (Macheath's gang?). Each figure is numbered and listed below under the appropriate category -- performers or audience
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Key plate to the painting by Hogarth and the engraving after it by William Blake., Mounted on page 162 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 14.6 x 22 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Annotated by Horace Walpole in pencil in lower right corner: Some of the figures in the boxes are different from those in Mr. Walpole's picture.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Actresses, Audiences, and Theatrical productions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]

6.
Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1 July 1790]
Call Number:
Hogarth 790.07.01.09 Box 115
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either side of him, his wife and lover are kneeling before their respective fathers, pleading for intervention on Macheath's behalf; in the background, a group of male figures (Macheath's gang?). Each figure is numbered and listed below under the appropriate category -- performers or audience
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., and Key plate to the painting by Hogarth and the engraving after it by William Blake.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Actresses, Audiences, and Theatrical productions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]

7.
Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1 July 1790]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Theatrical scene in a prison, after Hogarth's painting illustrating Gay's "The Beggar's Opera". Audience members are shown seated in boxes to the left and right; in the centre, the character of Macheath, a highwayman, stands in shackles; on either side of him, his wife and lover are kneeling before their respective fathers, pleading for intervention on Macheath's behalf; in the background, a group of male figures (Macheath's gang?). Each figure is numbered and listed below under the appropriate category -- performers or audience
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Key plate to the painting by Hogarth and the engraving after it by William Blake., and On page 235 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: plate mark 14.5 x 21.9 cm, on sheet 15.4 x 22.7 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 1, 1790, by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Actors, British, Actresses, Audiences, and Theatrical productions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Beggar's Opera, Act III as originally perform'd at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1727. [graphic]

8.
Gay's Fables [graphic].

Published / Created:
as the act directs, Novr. 17th, 1787.
Call Number:
787.11.17.01++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An engraved writing sheet illustrated with seven scenes from Gay’s Fables, each titled above and with rhyming couplet below. At head, and the largest scene, is ‘The Shepherd and the Philosopher’; six smaller scenes form the right and left borders below. A garlanded oval, designed to carry a hand-inserted date-line, is engraved at the foot above the imprint
Description:
Title engraved at top of plate, on either side of the image of "The shepherd and the philosopher.", Watermark: [...]anshaw., and Sheet annotated in ink with the name 'Thomas Harbidge' and the date 'Decr. 19. 1787' in the blank oval at foot. Written in manuscript in black ink at the center of the sheet are three passages, beginning with 'Education either makes or mars us, and governments as well as private families, are concerned in it’s [sic] consequences, abcde’, and concluding with 'Good books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age, they support us under solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves'.
Publisher:
Published by Robt. Sayer, map, chart & printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Fables
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Gay's Fables [graphic].

9.
[Black-eyed Susan] [graphic].

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[28 December 1780]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 22. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 27. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman sitting in a boat, waving as her dog looks longingly towards the right, land and ships on the sea behind; circular design after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from that of a later copy, published 1 November 1792 by W. Dickinson. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1906,0419.120., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility added in ink below image: Mr. Bunbury del. ; Js. Bretherton fec., Date of publication from imprint statement added in ink in lower left corner: Publishd. 28 Decbr. 1780., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Illustration to John Gay's poem 'Sweet William's farewell to black-ey'd Susan'., and Mounted on page 22 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Boats, Dogs, and Farewells
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Black-eyed Susan] [graphic].

10.
[Blouzelind] [graphic].

Creator:
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[28 December 1780]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 25. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman sitting beside a spinning wheel in a field, pinning a corsage of flowers at her breast, a dog curled up asleep at her feet, behind at right two figures, one on horseback, travel along a path towards a tower in the distance; circular design after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from lettered state., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility added in ink below image: Mr. Bunbury del. ; Js. Bretherton fec., State before letters. A later lettered state bearing title, artist and printmaker names, one line of verse below title, and the publication line "Publish'd 1 March 1781 by I. Bretherton, New Bond Street"., Date of publication from imprint statement added in ink in lower left corner: Publishd. 28 Decbr. 1780., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Illustration to John Gay's poem 'The shepherd's week'., and Mounted on page 25 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Spinning apparatus and Corsages
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Blouzelind] [graphic].