Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection


664


COVENT GARDEN, Theatre Royal, New Theatre, Admit (Before the Curtain) For the Season 1806 & 1807, at the Bow Street Door only, a printed blue ticket, named (Mr Cobbett & friend), signed by T. Harris, 115 x 74mm (Young, Theatres & Circus, p.54, this item). Fine to very fine; of especial radical interest Provenance: Tim Millett FPL 2004 (79); bt June 2004.


£200-£260


William Cobbett (1763-1835), Whig MP for Oldham 1832-5, was a radical journalist and advocate of parliamentary reform who championed the cause of traditional rural England against the changes brought about by the industrial revolution. He was the proprietor of the weekly Political Register, in which he wrote on 6 June 1835 “I have not been to a play since the month of June 1803, when I saw poor Mrs Jordan...I have not been at a play since. They made me stand up and pull my hat off while ‘God save the King’ was sung, and I deemed that to be such an infamy...that I never went to the play afterwards, though I had a free admission ticket to the theatres till I would absolutely keep them no longer”


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COVENT GARDEN, Foundation Stone of the New Theatre Royal [Second Theatre] Laid, 1808, a copper medal by P. Rouw, bust of the Prince of Wales right, rev. GEORGIUS PRINCEPS WALLIARUM THEATRI REGIIS INSTAURANDI AUSPICIIS IN HORTIS BENEDICTINIS LONDINI FUNDAMENTA SUA. MANU. LOCAVIT and date, 90mm (BHM 638). Some minor marks and light rubbing to high points of obverse, otherwise very fine and a handsome medal, only about 25 struck, very rare Provenance: Bt T. Millett September 2014.


£300-£400


The original Covent Garden theatre was destroyed in a fire in 1808, with the loss of some 30 lives. The theatre was rebuilt, for a cost in the order of £150,000, and re-opened the following year. The inscription on the medal infers that the Prince of Wales laid the foundation stone himself


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Provenance: Bt August 2004 COVENT GARDEN, Theatre Royal, Second Theatre, 1809, uniface brass, NEW THEATRE COVENT GARDEN and date around P[it] P


[rince’s] S[ide], 35mm, 13.21g (W 135; Young, Theatres & Circus, p.53, this piece; D & W 13/147). Light staining, otherwise good fine


£40-£60 667


Provenance: Bt S.H. Monks November 2003 COVENT GARDEN, Theatre Royal, Second Theatre, 1809, uniface copper, NEW THEATRE COVENT GARDEN and date around UP


[per] GALL[ery], 35mm, 11.56g (W 138; Young, Theatres & Circus, p.53, this piece; D & W 14/162). Fine www.dnw.co.uk all lots are illustrated on our website and are subject to buyers’ premium at 24% (+VAT where applicable) £40-£60


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