Wynnstay Theatre [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Wynnstay Theatre [graphic]
- Creator
- Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
- Contributor
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
- Published / Created
- 1785.
- Publication Place
- England?
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn (1749-1789), politician and patron of the arts, held summer performances at his estate at Wynnstay, in North Wales. Bunbury incorporates into the design of this admission ticket the titles for the 1785 season: The Confederacy, As You Like It, The Agreeable Surprise, Venice Preserved, and Harlequin's Invasion. The titles are shown on banners held by the figures of Tragedy, Comedy, Pantomime, and Farce or draped over the branches of the tree. Bunbury uses Farce dressed as a harlequin holding a club labelled "invasion" to form a rebus of Garrick's play. In the background, the four figures are identified on the sails of a windmill. In the banner at the top of the oval is the name of the theatre and the year "1785"; at the top and bottom of the oval are the masks of comedy and tragedy
- Description
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Title from item.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 22 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; sheet 20.8 x 15.5 cm.
Imperfect; printmaker's signature has been mostly erased from sheet. - 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 20.7 x 15.4 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- 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]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Stipple engravings England 1785
Etchings England 1785
Rebuses
Ephemera
Admission tickets - Material
- stipple engraving and etching ; and laid paper brown ink.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- Wales.
- Subject (Name)
- Wynnstay Theatre.
- Subject (Topic)
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Theater
Trees
Windmills
Banners - Subjects
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Wynnstay Theatre
Theater > Wales
Trees
Windmills
Banners
England > 1785
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8906204
- Object ID (OID)
- 17355620