1-624-614 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Stage Medley: representing the state of the town and the matchless merits of poet G---Polly Peachum and Captain Macheath', 18th century. Scenes from The Beggar's Opera, written in 1728 by John Gay. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).