drawing
- Museum number
- K,65.101
- Description
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Stage design for a theatre, perhaps the Queen's, later King's theatre in the Haymarket; elliptical frontispiece arch supported by Corinthian columns, flanking which are gilded statues of Momus (?) and Diana, at the top, the Royal Arms with deities on clouds, on the stage, a perspective formed by a colonnaded screen, beyond which are trees and a lofty pedimented building
Pen and brown ink and watercolour, over graphite
- Production date
- 1700-1750
- Dimensions
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Height: 199 millimetres
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Width: 202 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The only known view of the stage of this famous theatre, built by Vanbrugh in 1705.
Burney Collection, IX, 65, 101.
According to the catalogue of 'The Georgian Playhouse' (Hayward Gallery, London, 1975, no.284), the artist might be Marco Ricci (1676-1729), who visited London twice between 1708 and 1716 and is known to have designed scenery for this theatre in 1709/10.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1955 BM, [Theatre exhibition], no.13
1975 Aug-Oct, Hayward Gallery, 'The Georgian Playhouse', no.284
1987 Apr-May, Brighton AG, 'Staging the Opera in England', (ex cat.)
1987/8 Nov-Feb, Orleans House Gallery, 'Music Hath Charms', no. 52
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- K,65.101
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1972,U.597