For the Benefit of Spiller - Engraving after Hogarth - Theatre Ticket
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Original 19th-century engraving after William Hogarth with the benefit ticket of the comedian James Spiller: in a London street, a crowd presses around two great scales in which box and gallery tickets are weighed against the actor's debts, under the legend «For the Benefit of Spiller».
Original 19th-century engraving after William Hogarth with the benefit ticket of the comedian James Spiller: in a London street, a crowd presses around two great scales in which box and gallery tickets are weighed against the actor's debts, under the legend «For the Benefit of Spiller».
Hogarth's original composition dates from 1728 and alludes to the financial straits of Spiller, a comic actor familiar on the London stage, shown before the debtors' prison.
Medium: Steel engraving.
Artist / after: After William Hogarth (1697-1764).
Date: c. 1870.
Source: The Complete Works of William Hogarth (Mackenzie, London).
Dimensions: Image 3.9 x 5.5 in (10 x 14 cm).
Condition: Good condition; clean paper with slight age tone.
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Original 19th-century engraving after William Hogarth with the benefit ticket of the comedian James Spiller: in a London street, a crowd presses around two great scales in which box and gallery tickets are weighed against the actor's debts, under the legend «For the Benefit of Spiller».