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1.
[Lavinia Fenton] [graphic]

Creator:
Tinney, John, 1706?-1761, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1722 and 1761]
Call Number:
Portraits F342 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait ... three quarter length standing directed to left, head turned to left shoulder, glancing towards the viewer, left hand on hip, holding a shepherd's staff at her side in right, wearing an gown with ermine trimmed bodice and cape, small ruff...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles, at No. 13 in Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760,
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Lavinia Fenton] [graphic]

2.
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 onl...
Description:
Title from text within ribbon at top of image; remainder of title from text below image.
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]

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 purportin...
Description:
Title from ribbon at top of image; below "Theatre Royal Covent Garden / Pitt".
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]

4.
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 purportin...
Description:
Title from ribbon at top of image; below "Theatre Royal Covent Garden / Pitt".
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]

5.
The stage medley representing the polite tast [sic] of the Town & the matchless merits of Poet G

Published / Created:
[April 1728]
Call Number:
728.04.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on the popularity of the Beggar's Opera in the form of a medley print. At top left a print shows two oval portraits, Lavinia Fenton as Polly Peachum on the left and Thomas Walker as Macheath on the right, two short columns of verse beneath. In...
Description:
Title from text engraved above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732, Gay, John, 1685-1732., Fenton, Lavinia, 1708-1760, Walker, Thomas, 1698-1744, Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726, Bordoni, Faustina, 1697-1781., Amhurst, N. 1697-1742. (Nicholas),, George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760., Caroline, Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1737., Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745., Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744., Heraclitus, of Ephesus., Democritus, approximately 460 B.C.-approximately 370 B.C., and Cuzzoni, Francesca, 1696-1778.
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc, Pegasus (Greek mythology), Apollo, Muses (Greek deities), Parnassus, Mount (Greece), Prints, Prisons, and Theaters
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The stage medley representing the polite tast [sic] of the Town & the matchless merits of Poet G- Polly Peachum and Captn. Macheath. [graphic]