Some with unidentified notes; also some with dates and locations including: Drury Lane and Covent Garden; the provinces, including Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other locations
Description:
Includes some undated playbills.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England, London., Ireland, Dublin., Scotland, Edinburgh., and Glasgow.
Subject (Name):
Covent Garden (London, England) and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)
Holograph diary which chronicles a journey through France, Switzerland and Italy, compiled from several diaries of different journeys, the earliest being a tour in the summer of 1816. The author travels to Calais from London with members of her family. In Paris, she sees King Louis XVIII reviewing his troops in commemoration of his return to Paris last year; attends the theater; visits the Conservatorie des Arts et des Metiers to view the models of machines; and dines at Very's. She also visits the porcelain manufactory at Sevres; climbs Montanvert, describing the system of sticks used by their guides to protect them from falling; and spends the night in a monastery in St. Bernard, in the same room in which Napoleon stayed on his way to the Battle of Marengo. In Italy, she attends the opera in Turin, commenting on its lighting system, "which like the theatres in France is dark, the only lights being on the stage." She also vists churches, admires artwork and architecture, ascends Mount Vesuvius, and attends Mass at the Sistine Chapel. The diary concludes with a visit to the Devil's Bridge in Switzerland and The diary is annotated throughout, in the same hand, with further notes concerning the journey
Description:
In English. and Binding: quarter pigskin. Taped on spine: MS. Diary 1816.
Subject (Geographic):
France, Italy, Europe, Switzerland, and Vesuvius (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Mountaineering, Alps, Theater, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, and Social life and customs
Volume 2, page 24. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
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
Alternative Title:
To Wynnstay
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., and 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.
