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Design for a concert ticket
Title
[Design for a concert ticket] [graphic] / Smirk invt. ; F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
Edition
[Proof before letters].
Publication
[London] : [publisher not identified], [ca. 1791]
Physical Description
1 print : etching with engraving ; plate mark 21.9 x 19 cm, on sheet 35.7 x 27 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration number C,3.95.
Summary
Proof of an engraving which was later used on tickets to multiple concerts including one at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, Thursday 31st. May 1792 (see impression in the British Museaum online catalogue), one at Whitehall Chapel, Thursday 8th June 1797 (see impression in the British Museaum online catalogue) and another at the Concert Room, King's Theatre, Haymarket, May 179[blank] (see impression in the Lewis Walpole Library). The image shows, on the right, St Cecilia seated, playing the organ; on the left, two winged figures standing; in an oval; below, a block of low-relief which depicts Charity and three children; a lion and a unicorn on sides of the relief; after Robert Smirke.
Variant and related titles
Concert Room, Kings Theatre, Haymarket, May 179
St. Margaret's Church Wesminster, Thursday 31st. May 1792
Whitehall Chapel, Thursday 8th June 1797
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 18, 2013
Subjects
Genre/Form
Engravings - England - London.
Tickets.
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
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