drawing
- Museum number
- 1880,1113.2219
- Description
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View of the front of the old Opera House, Haymarket; red-bricked building facing cobbled street, rusticated arched windows on both storeys, 'Ridaut's Fencing Academy' inscribed on sign over main doorway, and bills posted below with names of operas, shoemaker's shop to left. 1783
Pen and grey ink and watercolour
- Production date
- 1783
- Dimensions
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Height: 194 millimetres
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Width: 233 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The separate note to this drawing is inscribed across the top 'William Capon delt 1783 Burned down June 1789 W L [?] pinxt. 1818.' This may indicate that this watercolour is by WL in 1818, after a drawing by William Capon of 1783. Opera singers mentioned in the note include Signor Ranzzini, Signora Carmi...li, whose husband is said to have set fire to the theatre, and Mr Slingsby.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1880,1113.2219
