[The pit door] [art original].
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Description
- Title
- [The pit door] [art original].
- Alternative Title
- Porte du parterre
- Creator
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist
- Published / Created
- [approximately 1784]
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
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"A struggling crowd, partly within and partly without the pit door, a spiked gateway, of Drury Lane Theatre. Men, respectably dressed but of plebeian appearance, stand in the foreground on the outskirts of the crowd or fight their way in, some with sticks. There are a few women; one who has fainted but is in an erect position owing to the crowd, is being revived with smelling-salts. A man is vomiting. In the foreground two lady's hats, the ribbons partly torn off, lie on the ground with shoes and the broken fragments of a shoe-buckle. In the background two ladies and a man are passing through a narrow door into the theatre itself; through the doorway is seen a section of an upper gallery and boxes below it, both crowded. On the exterior wall, above the heads of the crowd, is a playbill ..."--British Museum online catalogue, description of the related print
- Description
-
Title from related print, which bears both the English title "The pit door" and the French title "La porte du parterre".
Unsigned and undated; artist attribution and approximate date from those assigned to the related print in the British Museum catalogue. See no. 6769 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6.
Inscribed on poster in upper center portion of image: By Command of their MAJESTIES. At the Theatre Royal Drury Lane The Grecian Daughter And Euphrasia Mrs Siddons To which will be added The Devil to Pay Tomorrow the Tragedy of Hamlet HAMLET by MR KEMBLE.
Laid down on wove paper with watermark "B. E. & S." - Provenance
- Purchased from Karen Taylor Fine Art, October 2024.
- Extent
- 1 drawing : sheet 33 x 26 cm, mounted to 43.5 x 33 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Drawings D574 no. 12 Box D205
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Satires (Visual works) England 1784
Ink drawings
Watercolors - Material
- pen and black and gray ink and watercolor ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
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England
London. - Subject (Name)
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Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823.
Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831.
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England), - Subject (Topic)
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Theaters
Crowds
Gates
Doors & doorways
Vomiting
Loss of consciousness
Signs (Notices) - Subjects
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Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823
Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)
Theaters > England > London
Crowds
Gates
Doors & doorways
Vomiting
Loss of consciousness
Signs (Notices)
England > 1784
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Citation
- Robert Dighton, Pit Door. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 17481915
- Object ID (OID)
- 33286256