An admission ticket to a performance on 30 November 1789 at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, the residence of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough. Such private theatricals at country houses became increasingly popular during the eighteenth century, with plays starting in earnest at Blenheim in 1786 and becoming so successful that a greenhouse was converted into a proper theater
Alternative Title:
Fourth night. Blenheim. Monday, November 30, 1789, will be performed ...
Description:
Letterpress ticket on card, printed on recto only. and Traces of glue on verso, probably formerly mounted in an album. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and Oxfordshire.
Subject (Name):
Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795. and Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Aristocracy (Social class), Social life and customs, and Amateur theater
Harcourt, George Simon Harcourt, Earl, 1736-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
A.D. MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Call Number:
Drawer Topos Ox98 no. 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A ruined chapel, with a large square tower on the left and a door left ajar into the apse to the right, overgrown, with small trees and bushes in the yard in front of it, woods on the right and the corner of another building visible above the garden wall on the left"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View of the ruins of the chapel at Stanton-Harcourt in the county of Oxford
Description:
Title from caption below image., After a drawing by Paul Sandby. See British museum online catalogue., and Plate numbered "II" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Societati Antiquariorum Londinensi dono dedit Simon Comes de Harcourt Socius
Harcourt, George Simon Harcourt, Earl, 1736-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
A.D. MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Call Number:
Drawer Topos Ox98 no. 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The front half of a chapel, seen from the side, with a low wall to the left, trees, and a structure in the distance to the right; below the image are two columns of verse describing the history of the structure"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
View of the ruins of the chapel at Stanton-Harcourt in the county of Oxford
Description:
Title from text below image., After a drawing by Paul Sandby. See British museum online catalogue., Text below title: The manor of Stanton came into the family Harcourt by the marriage of Rob. de Harcourt Knt. ..., and Plate numbered "I" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Societati Antiquariorum Londinensi dono dedit Simon Comes de Harcourt Socius
Subject (Geographic):
England, Oxfordshire., Oxfordshire (England), and Stanton Harcourt (England)
Harcourt, George Simon Harcourt, Earl, 1736-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
A.D. MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Call Number:
Drawer Topos Ox98 no. 6
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A ruined building on the right with a pyramidical roof and a small square turret on the near left corner, with other buildings extending from it on the right and a large tree in the foreground, a barrow in the left foreground on a broad path leading to a wooden gate with a ruined church and trees beyond"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., After a drawing by Paul Sandby. See British museum online catalogue., and Plate numbered "IV" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Societati Antiquariorum Londinensi dono dedit Simon Comes de Harcourt Socius
Subject (Geographic):
England, Oxfordshire., Oxfordshire (England), and Stanton Harcourt (England)
Harcourt, George Simon Harcourt, Earl, 1736-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
A.D. MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Call Number:
Drawer Topos Ox98 no. 5
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A ruined structure sits in flat grounds, partly attached to a wall on the left, and surrounded by trees and low bungalows"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image. and Plate numbered "III" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Societati Antiquariorum Londinensi dono dedit Simon Comes de Harcourt Socius
Subject (Geographic):
England, Oxfordshire., Oxfordshire (England), and Stanton Harcourt (England)
