Wynnstay [graphic].

Description

Title: Wynnstay [graphic].
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Published / Created: [1786?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Admission ticket for the theatre at Wynnstay, the private theatre of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn. ... A full length woman standing in a field in front of the theatre, holding a dramatic mask, others at her feet, in oval frame of laurel with 'Wynnstay' on ribbon at bottom."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from item.
Artist attribution to Bunbury based on the inclusion of an impression of this print, mounted alongside the original drawing, in Horace Walpole's bound collection of Henry William Bunbury's works. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 49 3563.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 24 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 12.1 x 7.9 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 24. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792]

Genre: Tickets
Etchings England London 1786
Material: etching in blue ink on card stock ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Subject (Name): Wynnstay Theatre,
Subject (Topic): Theater
Theaters
Masks
Subjects: Wynnstay Theatre
Theater > Great Britain > 18th century
Theaters
Masks
England > London > 1786
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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