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- Title:
- Beggar's Opera, Act III
- Date:
- 1790
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and engraving with chine collé on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 18 1/8 × 24 5/8 inches (46 × 62.5 cm), Plate: 17 3/8 × 22 7/8 inches (44.1 × 58.1 cm), Image: 15 3/4 × 21 1/4 inches (40 × 54 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right: "British XVIII | Blake, William | "Beggar's Opera, Act III" | 1965.40.16"
Lettered inside image, upper center: "HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE | DIEU ET MON DROIT | VELUTI IN SPECULUM UTILE DULCI"; lettered below image, lower left: "Painted by Wm. Hogarth."; lower right: "Engraved by Wm. Blake."; lower center: "BEGGAR'S OPERA, ACT III. | "When my hero in Court appears, &c." | From the Original Picture, in the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Leeds. | Publish'd July 1st. 1790. by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside, & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall London."; lower left: "Size of the Picture 1 24'' by 1 30'' long."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. Lyall Dean, Mrs. Borden Helmer, and the Estate of Bliss Reed Crocker in memory of Mr and Mrs. Edward Bliss Reed, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1994.4.471
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:39545
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Elizabeth Einberg, The age of Hogarth, British painters born 1675-1709 , vol. 2, Tate Gallery, London, 1988, p. 145, cat. no. 117, ND466 T38 1988 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
The Grosvenor Exhibition (Second Notice), Athenaeum, , January 28, 1888, p. 121, British Periodcals [ORBIS]
The Private Collections of England, No. XXXVII, Hornby Castle, Bedale, Marske, Richmond , Athenaeum, no. 2655, September 14, 1878, pp. 343-44, Avaialble Online: British Periodicals II Also Available : A88 At421+ OVERSIZE (SML)