print;
admission-ticket
- Museum number
- C,2.1-4
- Description
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Folder with four admission-tickets;
C,2.1: ticket entitled member of Society of Apothecaries to gain entrance to Chelsea gardens; The Bearer, a Member of the Society / of Apothecaries of London; / is intitled to visit their Garden at / Chelsea, as often as he pleases / at convenient Hours. / No Servant to receive from him any / acknowledgement on that Account; production detail: Uriah Bristow inv / Bounre Sculp
C,2.2: as above, belonging to a Mr William Curtis
C,2.3: Manuscript admission-ticket for Geneviéve d'Eon, with red seal: [Genevieve d'Eon ; At Mrs Bateman / No 1 Carlisle Street / Soho, on Wednesday / January 16 at 12 / o'clock] [1793]
C,2.4: Admission ticket to Villa Gardens: VILLA GARDENS / Admission Ticket / Bath; [1791]
- Production date
- 1770-1813 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 95 millimetres (largest)
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Height: 63 millimetres (smallest)
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Width: 140 millimetres
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Width: 92 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Kept in original folder with C,2.1-4, marked: 'Apothecary's Company / Physick Garden Chelsea / Fencing &c'
We are grateful to Tacye Phillipson (email Feb 2021) for pointing out this reference: 'Soho and its associations : historical, literary & artistic / edited from the mss. of the late E. F. Rimbault' ... by George Clinch. 1895, p 72 ("On the 16th of January, 1793, Mrs. Bateman gave an elegant amusement to a party of about 500 ladies and gentlemen at noon. ' Le Chevalier D'Eon fenced,' says a newspaper of the period ; ' she sustained four assaults from Capt. Walmsley, and in the loose play refused a mask, saying, " I have defended my virginity fifty years without, and now cannot adopt it").'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- C,2.1-4
