Miscellaneous: M0103

Title

Drury Lane Theatre Ticket

Technique

Other

Date

1826

Dimensions

Height: 7cm
Width: 10.6cm

Other materials

Printed ticket with handwriting in ink on card

Inscription/signature

"Theatre Royal Drury Lane / Admit Two to the Boxes, / Wednesday, 17 May 1826 / Not admitted after half-past Seven o'Clock." [the struck through signature appears tp be that of James Winston, the first Secretary of the Garrick Club]

Provenance

Presented to the Garrick Club by Sir Waldron Smithers, 1943

Other number

Gift 612

Exhibition history

29 July-31 December 2016, The Weird and the Wonderful:Entertaining Georgian Polite Society, Fairfax House, York