[Wynnstay theatre] [art original].

Description

Title: [Wynnstay theatre] [art original].
Alternative Title: To Wynnstay
Creator: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
Published / Created: [ca. 1786]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A Punch-like figure is shown standing to front, with head in profile to the left, holding a paper in each hand. A goat stands beside him on the right; a pole with a sign 'To Wynnstay' (lettered backwards) is on the left, pointing to the right. A design for an admission ticket for the theater at Wynnstay, the private theater of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn
Description: Title and date from those supplied in the British Museum catalog for the print made after this drawing.
Attribution to Bunbury based on inclusion of the drawing in a volume of the artist's work.
Mounted with a related drawing and a print on page 24 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Original design, with image and letters in reverse, for no. 7069A in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
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 16.3 x 14 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 ; and brown laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Subject (Name): Wynnstay Theatre.
Subject (Topic): Theater
Traffic signs & signals
Goats
Subjects: Wynnstay Theatre
Theater > Great Britain > 18th century
Traffic signs & signals
Goats
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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