John Gay Collection

Too Truthful - painted by A. Solomon, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Too Truthful - painted by A. Solomon, 1850

Preliminary Design for Monument to John Gay the Poet, c. 1736

John Gay, 1802. Creator: Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin
John Gay, 1802

Beggars Opera, Act III, 1788 / 1790. Creator: William Blake
Beggars Opera, Act III, 1788/1790

The Beggars Opera, 1729. Creator: William Hogarth
The Beggars Opera; The Beggars Opera, III, xi; Scene from the Beggars Opera, 1729

The Farmers Wife and the Raven, 1786. Creator: George Stubbs
The Farmers Wife and the Raven; The Farmers Wife and the Raven, from John Gays " Fables", 1786

Scene from John Gays The Beggars Opera, 1728. Creator: William Hogarth
Scene from John Gays The Beggars Opera, 1728. The Beggars Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch

The Beggars Opera, Act III, July 1, 1790. Creator: William Blake
The Beggars Opera, Act III, July 1, 1790

The Beggars Opera, Act III, 1790. Creator: William Blake
The Beggars Opera, Act III, 1790

St. Peters Church at Walpole, 18th century. Creator: Unknown
St. Peters Church at Walpole, 18th century

The Beggars Opera, 1728. Creator: Unknown
The Beggars Opera, 1728. Formerly attributed to William Hogarth

Gay, (1685-1732), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Gay, (1685-1732), 1830. John Gay (1685-1732) English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club had a lasting friendship with Alexander Pope

Richs Glory, (1881). Creator: Unknown
Richs Glory, (1881). Richs Glory or his Triumphant Entry into Covent-Garden, c1732

Scene from the The Beggars Opera VI, 1731. Artist: William Hogarth
Scene from the The Beggars Opera VI, 1731. The Beggars Opera is a play by John Gay, first performed at the Lincolns Inn Theatre in London in 1728. From William Hogarth, by Austin Dobson

A letter from Allan Ramsay to John Gay, 18th century (1840). The letter outlines part of a poetical epistle

Part of a letter from John Gay to Dean Swift, c1728, (1840). Artist: John Gay
Part of a letter from John Gay to Jonathan Dean Swift, describing the success of the Beggars Opera, c1728, (1840)

The Stages Glory, 18th century. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston (pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905)

The Stage Medley, 18th century
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 Beggars Opera, written in 1728 by John Gay

Galatea Married, 1866. Galatea rides a chariot with two satyrs sitting in the back, their arms crossed and talking to each other. The one-eyed giant Polyphemus rides along side her

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