Tag Archives: Lewis Walpole Library June 2016

Ticket for Dalby Theatre

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A image of a mad Medea [?], hair flowing and left breast bare, holding a dagger in her right hand and held above her head, posed read to strike. In her left hand she holds a chalice. There is a column to her left in the background. Used as a ticket for a production at Dalby Theatre, the private playhouse of Edward Hartopp (1758-1808) at his seat Little Dalby Hall in Leicestershire.

  • Title: [Ticket for Dalby Theatre] [graphic].
  • Production: [Melton Mowbray? : publisher not identified, 1803]

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File 767 P69b D213 803.1 Copy 2

Acquired June 2016

Dalby Theatre. July 14th, 1803. Tancred & Sigismunda with Bon Ton

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An admission ticket to a performance at Dalby Theatre 14 July 1803, the private playhouse of Edward Hartopp at his seat Little Dalby Hall in Leicestershire. Edward Hartopp’s private theatricals seem to have been staged sporadically from 1777, becoming larger and more elaborate at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

  • Title: Dalby Theatre. July 14th, 1803. Tancred & Sigismunda with Bon Ton. Admission ticket (not transferable).
  • Production: [Melton Mowbray? : publisher not identified, 1803]

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File 767 P69b D213 803.1

Acquired June 2016

Kearsleys’ Stranger’s guide, or Companion through London

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The plan of London includes ‘new buildings to the year 1791’

  • Author: Kearsley, Catharine.
  • Title: Kearsleys’ Stranger’s guide, or Companion through London and Westminster and the country round : containing a description of the situation, antiquity, and curiosities of every place, within the circuit of fourteen miles, together with a map of the surrounding country, and a plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark.
  • Published: London : Printed for and sold by C. and G. Kearsley, [1791]

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646 791 K24

Acquired June 2016

Dalby Theatre. July 19th, 1803. Wild oats, with a farce. Admission ticket

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An admission ticket to a performance at Dalby Theatre 19 July 1803, the private playhouse of Edward Hartopp at his seat Little Dalby Hall in Leicestershire. Edward Hartopp’s private theatricals seem to have been staged sporadically from 1777, becoming larger and more elaborate at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

  • Title: Dalby Theatre. July 19th, 1803. Wild oats, with a farce. Admission ticket (not transferable).
  • Production: [Melton Mowbray? : [publisher not identified, 1803]

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File 767 P69b D213 803.1

Acquired June 2016

Dalby Theatre. Tuesday July 19th, 1803. Wild oats …

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A playbill recording a performance of Wild oats by John O’Keeffe (1747-1833) and Cross purposes by William O’Brien (d. 1815), on 19 July 1803 at Dalby Theatre, the private playhouse of Edward Hartopp (1758-1808) at his seat Little Dalby Hall in Leicestershire. Edward Hartopp’s private theatricals seem to have been staged sporadically from 1777, becoming larger and more elaborate at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Edward Hartopp, his son, Mr. Bilsborrow, and two of the Misses Hamilton are listed as performers.

  • Title: Dalby Theatre. Tuesday July 19th, 1803. Wild oats … : after which Cross purposes …
  • Production: [Melton Mowbray] : Clementson, printer, Melton, [1803]

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File 767 P69b D213 803

Acquired June 2016

The church in danger, or, A very uncommon parish dinner

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“Satire showing an announcement from a pulpit in a church requesting the wardens to meet to consider eating the church.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Title: The church in danger, or, A very uncommon parish dinner [graphic].
  • Publication: London : Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket, [ca. 1830]

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830.00.00.158

Acquired June 2016

Croesus and Thalia

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Print shows an ugly and leering elderly man, identified as the London banker Thomas Coutts, embracing the actress Harriet Mellon (later Mrs. Coutts, and subsequently Duchess of St. Albans).

  • Printmaker: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
  • Title: Croesus and Thalia [print] : as rich as Croesus, as ripe as a melon / Rowlandson invt.
  • Publication: [London : Pub. 15 May, 1815, by T. Palser, Surry Side Westr. Bridge, 15 May 1815]

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815.05.15.01

Acquired June 2016

Particulars and conditions of sale of a freehold estate

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This catalogue describes the contents of an auction by Christie and Anstell of an estate in Pinner in four lots in July 1779. The fist lot consisted of “a spacious freehold house, with uniform wings, pleasure ground, fine plantations, kitchen garden, and rich meadow; containing in the whole, 26 acres”. The residence, with rooms and grounds described in detail, was purchased by Francis Legge (c. 1719-1783), then governor of Nova Scotia, recalled to London in February 1776 to answer charges of mismanagement of the colony. The catalogue bears Legge’s signature as purchaser. Printed “conditions of sale” are included.

  • Author: Christie and Ansell (London, England)
  • Title: Particulars and conditions of sale of a freehold estate, situate, lying and being in the hamlet of Pinner, and in the parish of Harrow on the Hill, about 13 miles from London, in the county of Middlesex : which will be sold by auction, by Mess. Christie and Ansell, at their Great Room, in Pall-Mall, on Wednesday, July 21, 1779, at one o’clock, in four lots.
  • Publication: [London : Christie and Ansell, 1799]

Catalog Record

File 125 C555 779

Acquired June 2016

At the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden

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This playbill records a performance at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden of The constant couple by George Farquhar (1676-1707) on 22 May 1755 in which Margaret Woffington (1720?-1760) played the leading part of Sir Harry Wildair – one of the roles for which she was most celebrated. The part of Lady Lurewell was performed by Esther Hamilton (d. 1787). Other actors in the cast include Theophilus Cibber (1703-1758) and John Arthur (1708?-1772), actor and stage designer — it is likely that he was responsible for devising the “machinery” mentioned in a note at the foot of the sheet: “as any obstruction in the movement of the machinery will greatly prejudice the performance of the entertainment, it is hoped no persons will be displeased as their being refus’d admittance behind the scene.”

  • Author:  Covent Garden Theatre.
  • Title: At the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden, this present Thursday, being the 22d of May, will be acted a comedy, call’d The constant couple; or, A trip to the jubilee. : The part of Sir Harry Wildair by Mrs Woffington …
  • Publication: [London : publisher not identified, 1755]

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File 767 P69B C838 1755

Acquired June 20016