Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection Religion
658
LEICESTER SQUARE, The Oratory, John Henley, copper, 1726, facing half-length figure indicating text in a book, INVENIAM VIAM AVT FACIAM around, I[ohn] H[enley] in exergue, rev. THE ORATORY and date to left, STA SOL to right, Joshua commanding a rayed sun to stand still, FOR in exergue, 32mm, 13.91g (W 2454, this piece illustrated; D &W79/240; MI II, 465/79; Young, Entertainments, p.26, this piece). Extremely fine and patinated, extremely rare
£200-£260 Provenance: Tim Millett FPL 2005 (56); bt June 2005.
John Henley (1692-1756), known contemporaneously as ‘Orator Henley’, b. Melton Mowbray, moved to London in 1721. After a quarrel with the Bishop of London he gave up his assistant preachership and on 3 July 1726 opened his Oratory at Newport Market, situated near Leicester square and one of the main meat markets in the city at the time. He moved to an old theatre at Clare Market, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, in 1729. Said to be a rude and vain man who upset many people, he died in poverty
Theatre and Entertainment 659
ALDWYCH, Aldwych Theatre, uniface iron, stamped ALDWYCH THEATRE around TONS OF MONEY, 27mm, 1.30g (W 923); DRURY LANE, Theatre Royal, Fourth Theatre, 1888, brass, AUGUSTUS HARRIS COMPANY EVERY EVENING around 1888 THE ARMADA 1588, rev. GREAT DRURY LANE DRAMA, two ships and rowing boat, 25mm, 5.68g (W 238; Young, Theatres & Circus, p.34, this piece); LAMBETH, Ideal Cinema, 1928, brass, façade of building, rev. THE IDEAL PENNY, THIS IS WORTH A PENNY AT THE PAY-BOX ONLY ONE MAY BE USED FOR EACH SEAT, 32mm, 9.42g (W 905, this piece illustrated); SHAFTESBURY AVENUE, Shaftesbury Theatre, uniface iron (2), both stamped THE SHAFTESBURY THEATRE around TONS OF MONEY, 32mm, 1.76g (W 924, this piece illustrated), 19mm, 0.65g (W –); STRAND, Tivoli Theatre, brass (2, different), THE TRAIL OF ‘98 above TIVOLI, revs. KEEP THIS IT MAY BE LUCKY SEE DAILY SKETCH, no.1511, 14578, both 26mm, both 5.33g; no location stated, uniface iron (2), both stamped DON’T FAIL TO SEE TONS OF MONEY, 27 and 19mm, 1.37g, 0.73g (W –) [9]. Third good very fine, others fine to very fine, second pierced for suspension
£50-£70
Provenance: First bt H. Simmons January 2013; second bt April 2011; third bt D. Pennock March 2007; fourth bt S.H. Monks January 2003; fifth bt R. Wells March 2005; sixth and seventh bt H. Simmons October 2005; eighth bt June 2015; last bt J.G. Scott February 2013.
Tons of Money, a farce by Will Evans and Arthur Valentine, was first performed at the Shaftesbury Theatre in April 1922, transferring to the Aldwych in 1924. The Trail of ‘98, an MGM epic about the Klondike gold rush, premiered in 1928
660
CLERKENWELL, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, 1803, bone, SADLERS WELLS around date, rev. named (Mr Andrews, Pit), 35mm, 3.74g (W 410, this piece; Young, Theatres & Circus, p.90, this piece; ). ‘X’ cancellation cross below name, fine to very fine, exceptionally rare
£400-£500 Provenance: F.S. Cokayne Collection; bt T. Millett February 2013.
Robert C. Andrews (fl. 1789-1819, †c. 1825), artist, was first employed at Sadler’s Wells in 1794, eventually becoming the theatre’s principal scene painter. Many of his original sketches for pantomimes and aquadramas are now held by the Garrick Club. Described by a contemporary as ‘a short man, but a Giant in the Art’, Andrews became a shareholder of Sadler’s Wells in 1802, but sold his holding at the close of the 1811-12 season. When the manager Charles Dibdin left Sadler’s Wells in 1818, Andrews resigned at the same time and the following year joined the Theatre Royal, Drury lane. The original Sadler’s Wells theatre, named after Richard Sadler, Charles II’s surveyor of highways and the owner of a medicinal well discovered in 1683, opened in 1740. It was replaced by a stone building in 1766
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