Covent Garden Theatre [graphic] / Pugin & Rowlandson delt. et sculpt. ; J. Bluck aquat.

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
Physical Description:
1 print : aquatint and etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.1 x 28.1 cm, on sheet 26.4 x 33.9 cm
Notes:
Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 212.
Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 27.
Title etched below image.
Abstract:
"Interior of theatre, seen from the back of the stalls, looking towards the stage; as it appeared before it burned down in September 1808; an orchestra assembled towards the back of the stage, behind a choir at the front; the theatre packed with spectators; candle chandeliers hanging around room from the different levels of the circles."--British Museum online catalogue.
Topics:
Audiences--England--London.
Chandeliers.
Interiors--England--London.
Theaters--England--London.
Topics:
London (England)--Pictorial works.
Topics:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Bluck, John (Printmaker), printmaker.
Covent Garden Theatre.
Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832, artist.
Language:
English
Genre:
Aquatints--England--London--1808.
Book illustrations.
Etchings--England--London--1808.
Format:
Image
Content Type:
Prints & Photographs
Rights:
These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
Source Title:
Microcosm of London.
Call Number:
Quarto 646 808 M58 v.1
Orbis Record:
12972946
Yale Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Digital Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Local Record Number:
lwlpr32448
Citation:
Abbey, J.R. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, pages 136-140
Adams, B. London illustrated 1604-1850, pages 223-228
OID:
16194860
PID:
digcoll:4048719