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Tickets to concerts and benefit performances. Text within [] indicates hand-written notes:
C,2.522: Ticket, to "The King's Theatre in the Hay Market [April the 3d] 177[7]". A family concert outside a thatched cottage with a boy blowing a trumpet accompanying his sister who sings from a sheet, while the parents look on; in frame wrapped in garlands, with lettering in cartouche at top. "F. Zuccarelli invt / G. Vitalba sculp".
C,2.523: Ticket for the New Musical Fund, in the Pantheon on Thursday March 27 1788, with Apollo on a cloud with his lyre, pouring coins from a purse into the apron of a woman standing in front of him, with two children, behind her a group do musicians; an organ beind Apollo; in oval with musical ornaments at top and drapery. "J. Ibbetson del / J. Thornthwaite sculp".
C,2.524: Ticket, "Under the patronage of His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence / Theatre Royal Hay-Market / for the Benefit of the / Choral Fund / Will be perform'd / … (See Merlin record for full description)
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