Concert Room, King's Theatre, Haymarket [graphic]

Description

Title: Concert Room, King's Theatre, Haymarket [graphic]
Creator: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845, artist.
Published / Created: [May 1798]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Ticket to a concert at Concert Room, King's Theatre, Haymarket, May 179[blank], with the day and year annotated in manuscript. On the right, St Cecilia seated, playing the organ; on the left, two winged figures standing; in an oval; below, a block of low-relief which depicts Charity and three children; a lion and a unicorn on sides of the relief; after Robert Smirke; title for 1792 concert printed in a separate printmark at top."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from engraved text above image; image and text on separate plates.
For proof before letters, Cf. Lewis Walpole Copy: on page numbered 16 in Folio 75 B28 804.
The plate with the image was used multiple times for concerts including ones held at at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, Thursday 31st. May 1792 and one at Whitehall Chapel, Thursday 8th June 1797. See impressions in the British Museum online catalogue.
"Arnold" annotated below image in brown ink.
Mounted on page numbered 17 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Holland Brothers, Birmingham; March 1958.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 23.0 x 19 cm, on sheet 28.0 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Art
Engravings England London
Tickets
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Cecilia, Saint
Subject (Topic): Angels
Charity
Music
Subjects: Cecilia, Saint > Art
Angels
Charity
Music
England > London
18th century
Royal Society of Musicians (Great Britain) > Stamp

Access: Public
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