Wynnstay [art original].

Description

Title: Wynnstay [art original].
Creator: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
Published / Created: [ca. 1786]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A woman, shown full-length, stands in a field in front of a theater, holding a dramatic mask; other masks are at her feet. Surrounding the scene is an oval frame of laurel with 'Wynnstay' on the ribbon at the bottom. A design for an admission ticket for the theater at Wynnstay, the private theater of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn
Description: Title from inscription in ink at bottom of image.
Attribution to Bunbury based on inclusion of the drawing in a volume of the artist's work.
Date from local card catalog record.
Mounted alongside the print made after this drawing, as well as with another related drawing, on page 24 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Original design for a print in the British Museum; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: C,3.149.
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 drawing : sheet 12.3 x 8.1 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
Ink drawings British 18th century
Material: pen and ink on brown laid paper ;
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
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Henry William Bunbury, Wynnstay. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.