Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Title:
The beggar's opera by Hogarth and Blake : a portfolio / compiled by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis and Philip Hofer.
Published / Created:
Cambridge [Mass.] : Harvard University Press ; 1965.

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1965.
Physical Description:
1 portfolio (x, [1] leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 56 x 59 cm + 1 pamphlet in pocket (15, xv pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 x 31 cm)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio B 2015 10
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Issued in portfolio.

"Catalogue of the plates"; p. [17]-[30]

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.

Bibliographical footnotes.
Subject Terms:
Gay, John, 1685–1732. Beggar's opera -- Illustrations. | Hogarth, William, 1697–1764. | Blake, William, 1757–1827. | Blake, William, 1757–1827. | Hogarth, William, 1697–1764. | Beggar's opera (Gay, John)
Form/Genre:
Illustrations.
Contributors:
Blake, William, 1757–1827. | Lewis, W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon), 1895–1979. | Hofer, Philip, 1898–1984.