Wynnstay Theatre [graphic].

Description

Title: Wynnstay Theatre [graphic].
Contributor: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, attributed name.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Published / Created: [1781]
Publication Place: England?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: An engraved ticket for a program of four plays presented in 1781 by Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, the wealthy fourth baronet devoted to private theatricals. This ticket, an oval design in a rectangular frame, is for the 1781 performance of Rule a wife and have a wife, Bon ton, Richard III, and Lyar
Description: Title etched below image.
Artist identified as Bunbury in the British Museum online catalogue.
Questionable printmaker attribution to Bretherton from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.2958.
Mounted on page 22 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 21.5 x 14.8 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
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 : plate mark 21.5 x 14.5 cm, on sheet 29 x 21 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 22. 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: Etchings England 1781
Tickets
Material: etching ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Subject (Name): Wynnstay Theatre.
Subject (Topic): Theater
Pedestals
Subjects: Theater > Great Britain > 18th century
Wynnstay Theatre
Pedestals
England > 1781
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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