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Tickets to concerts and benefit performances. Text within [] indicates hand-written notes:
C,2.516: Ticket to a concert of Handel; the composer seated at his desk, pen in hand, while an angel holds a crown of laurel over his head, and a putto holding scroll in sky inscribed "Handel". In lower margin "J. Swaine Sc." Dated by Banks 1797. Etching
C,2.517: Ticket "M[rs Mountam] Introduced by [Mr Miller President]", with a semi-hude woman playing hte harp seated in the clouds, with the lines "From Harmony, from heav'nly harmony / This universal fram began", and "Black sc / Change Alley". At bottom "By order of the Committee of the Harmonic Society [A Schick] Secretary".
C,2.518: Ticket, "Mr Knyvett's Concert, Hanover Square; Wednesday the 18th of May 1791"; Apollo playing his lyre seated on clouds to the left, a putto reading music by his side, another in clouds and garlands with sheet music at top right. Numbered 173
C,2.519: Ticket, "For the Benefit of … (See Merlin record for full description)
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