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Author Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.

Title The beggar's opera by Hogarth and Blake : a portfolio / compiled by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis and Philip Hofer.

Publication Info. Cambridge [Mass.] : Harvard University Press ; New Haven : Yale University Press, 1965.

Call No.Rare Books Collection Rare ND497.H7 L4 Ask librarian for access.
LocationMoore Special Collections

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 Moore Special Collections  Rare ND497.H7 L4    Available  ---
Description 1 portfolio (x leaves of plates, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations ; 56 x 59 cm + 1 pamphlet in pocket (15, xv pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 x 31 cm)
Note The plates are reproductions of Hogarth's seven versions of his picture which illustrates act 3, scene 11, air 5 of John Gay's The beggar's opera, with reproductions of the 1st and 4th states of Blake's engraving after the Duke of Leeds version, and including a modern restrike of the 4th state.
"Catalogue of the plates": p. [17]-[30].
Bibliography Bibliographical footnotes.
Contents Text.-Plates.
Subject Gay, John, 1685-1732. Beggar's opera -- Illustrations.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Genre/Form Pictures.
Pictures.
Added Author Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Lewis, W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon), 1895-1979.
Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984.