Londres, Cité Lugubre
Print
1901 (published)
1901 (published)
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Etching from a set of six plates depicting street scenes in London. It depicts a dilapidated building, Astley's Theatre on Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth, pasted between the pavement and the roof with advertising posters. Some of the posters are readable (Pears, Daily News) while others are more obscure.
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| Materials and techniques | Etching |
| Brief description | Etching by William Monk from a series entitled 'Londres, Cité Lugubre', published in London, 1901. |
| Physical description | Etching from a set of six plates depicting street scenes in London. It depicts a dilapidated building, Astley's Theatre on Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth, pasted between the pavement and the roof with advertising posters. Some of the posters are readable (Pears, Daily News) while others are more obscure. |
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| Object history | This print depicts the third Astley's Theatre just before demolition in the mid 1890s. Philip Astley started his circus business in 1768. The first theatre he built on the site was refurbished in 1786 and renamed Astley's Royal Grove. It burned down and was subsequently rebuilt in 1794 and renamed Astley’s New Amphitheatre of the Arts. In 1803, that too burned down but was quickly rebuilt as the structure depicted here. Charles Dickens wrote one of the 'Sketches by Boz' on Astley theatre. The venue also appears in Jane Austen's 'Emma'. |
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| Bibliographic reference | For further information on the history of the building and its entertainment: the V&A blog:
http://web.archive.org/web/20230117120855/https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/the-story-of-circus |
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| Accession number | E.2028-1901 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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