Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection


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HAYMARKET, Her Majesty’s Theatre, octagonal ivory, Opera 1838, back named (Duchess of Cleveland, Box 57 1/2, 5), 33mm, 3.60g (W 331, this piece; Young, Theatres & Circus, p.73, this piece; D & W 29/321). Very fine and very rare; pierced for suspension


£300-£500 Provenance: Gift of A.H.F. Baldwin 1970.


Elizabeth Russell, Duchess of Cleveland (1777-1861), second wife of William Henry Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland, KG (1766-1842), himself a direct descendant of Charles II by his mistress Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland. Her husband, who was the Lord- Lieutenant of co Durham, had the dubious reputation of being a slave trader in Barbados, who was ‘compensated’ for the loss of 233 slaves to the amount of £4,854 in 1837. Her marriage to Henry Vane, at Vane’s house, 31 St James’s square, London, on 27 July 1813, was said by Debrett’s to ‘outrage polite society’ The daughter of a market gardener from Burneston, N Yorkshire, Elizabeth made a dubious reputation for herself by being the previous mistress of Vane and, before that, of the aged banker Thomas Coutts (1735-1822).


Please note ivory is covered by CITES legislation and may be subject to import/export and trade restrictions 686


HAYMARKET, Theatre Royal, The Author’s Benefit: Pasquin, At ye Theatre in ye Hay-Market, an engraved print for H. Fielding after W. Hogarth [1736], 257 x 213mm. About very fine; probably a later copy Provenance: Bt November 2003.


£20-£30


The ticket depicts a stage scene with seven performers, a dog and a cat, and in the background two tightrope walkers accompanied by an ape; within a frame, a satyr on either side. The play was a brutal satire by Henry Fielding (1707-54), set against the government under Sir Robert Walpole, who retaliated by introducing the Theatre Licensing Act of 1737, effectively ending Fielding’s West End career


687


255; Young, Theatres & Circus, p.81, this piece; D & W 24/270). About very fine, reddish patina 688


Provenance: Tim Millett FPL 2003 (76); bt June 2003 HAYMARKET, Theatre Royal, 1778, uniface copper, THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET around PIT, date below, 37mm, 12.02g (W


£80-£100


Provenance: Bt R. Pratt November 2008 HAYMARKET, Theatre Royal, 1821, uniface copper, NEW THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET around PIT and date, 37mm, 14.18g (W


260; Young, Theatres & Circus, p.83, this piece; D & W 25/274). Good fine, light patina £60-£80


689


HOLBORN, Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre, 1695, copper, laureate bust of William III right, rev. FOR THE PIT above date, 33mm, 12.28g (W 355, this piece illustrated; Young, Theatres & Circus, p.61, this piece). Die flaw on obverse, fine, a great rarity; very few specimens extant


£400-£600 Provenance: Tim Millett FPL 2008 (49); bt May 2008.


Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre, originally Lisle’s tennis court in Portugal street, was first opened as a theatre in 1661. Reverting to a tennis court, the building was re-opened as a theatre in 1695 by a group of actors led by Thomas Betterton (1635-1710), but finally closed in 1704, following which Betterton and his troupe transferred to the new theatre in the Haymarket built by the architect John Vanbrugh


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