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- Museum number
- 1880,0911.1032
- Title
- Object: Box Entrance to the English Opera House
- Description
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View through a doorway to a vaulted corridor; a well-dressed couple entering and a child selling programmes. 1819
Etching and aquatint
- Production date
- 1819
- Dimensions
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Height: 224 millimetres
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Width: 151 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The English Opera House opened in 1816 in a building in the Strand that had previously been used for exhibitions of paintings, including those of the Royal Academy, and for a variety of theatrical entertainments. The building burned down in 1830, and was replaced by the Theatre Royal Lyceum.
This plate was later used as an illustration to Brayley's 'Theatres of London', published by Josiah Taylor in 1826.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1877
- Acquisition notes
- Stamped on verso with a red British Museum (i.e. old Department of Printed Books) stamp dated "26 Jul 1877"
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1880,0911.1032
