John Gay - Anonymous (1720s) The Stage Medley Representing the Polite Tast of the Town & the matchless merits of Poet G- Polly Peachum & Capt. Macheath, etching on laid paper mounted on support with ruled black ink border, sheet 365 x 260 mm. (14 3/8 x 10 1/4 in), small repaired nicks to extremities, minor surface dirt, unframed, [1728]. Literature: BM Satires 1806 ⁂ Satire on the popularity of Gay's Beggar's Opera, first staged in 1728, executed in the form of a medley print. At top left a print shows two oval portraits, Lavinia Fenton as Polly Peachum on the left and Thomas Walker as Macheath on the right. At bottom right is a scene in Newgate with men and women sitting round a table on which is a punch bowl and pipes; they are toasting a laureated John Gay who sits at the centre, saying 'The Beggers Opera for yr', 'G(a)y for ever', 'Let's vote him King of the Beggers' and he responds, 'Yov'e done me too great an honour but I'll -'. [BM Satires
John Gay - Anonymous (1720s) The Stage Medley Representing the Polite Tast of the Town & the matchless merits of Poet G- Polly Peachum & Capt. Macheath, etching on laid paper mounted on support with ruled black ink border, sheet 365 x 260 mm. (14 3/8 x 10 1/4 in), small repaired nicks to extremities, minor surface dirt, unframed, [1728]. Literature: BM Satires 1806 ⁂ Satire on the popularity of Gay's Beggar's Opera, first staged in 1728, executed in the form of a medley print. At top left a print shows two oval portraits, Lavinia Fenton as Polly Peachum on the left and Thomas Walker as Macheath on the right. At bottom right is a scene in Newgate with men and women sitting round a table on which is a punch bowl and pipes; they are toasting a laureated John Gay who sits at the centre, saying 'The Beggers Opera for yr', 'G(a)y for ever', 'Let's vote him King of the Beggers' and he responds, 'Yov'e done me too great an honour but I'll -'. [BM Satires
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