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Title(s)
The beggar's opera by Hogarth and Blake : a portfolio / compiled by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis and Philip Hofer.
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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)
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio B 2015 10
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Classification
Books
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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.
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Subject Terms
Beggar's opera (Gay, John) | Blake, William, 1757–1827. | Blake, William, 1757–1827. | Gay, John, 1685–1732. Beggar's opera -- Illustrations. | Hogarth, William, 1697–1764. | Hogarth, William, 1697–1764.
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