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The Beggar's opera: on trial for robbery, Captain Macheath stands in shackles in Newgate prison, while two of his lovers (Polly Peachum and Lucy Lockit) plead for his life Wall Art
ART BY: William Hogarth
The Beggar's opera: on trial for robbery, Captain Macheath stands in shackles in Newgate prison, while two of his lovers (Polly Peachum and Lucy Lockit) plead for his life Wall Art
ART BY: William Hogarth
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About this artwork
The Beggar's opera: on trial for robbery, Captain Macheath stands in shackles in Newgate prison, while two of his lovers (Polly Peachum and Lucy Lockit) plead for his life is an engravings by William Hogarth (1697–1764), dated 1 July 1790. The artist is catalogued as English. The original is held by the Wellcome Collection, and the file offered here measures 6000 × 4474 px (6.4 MB). You will find it among Prints and Rococo, in landscape format. Archive Lane holds 742 works by William Hogarth, a British artist.
William Hogarth was an English painter, engraver, cartoonist, and satirist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by William Hogarth →
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The Beggar's opera: on trial for robbery, Captain Macheath stands in shackles in Newgate prison, while two of his lovers (Polly Peachum and Lucy Lockit) plead for his life is free to preview at web resolution. The original high-resolution file is a one-time purchase, or included with an Archive Lane membership (up to 1,000 high-resolution downloads per day) — and the artwork can also be ordered as a made-to-order print.
