Playbill
1865 (printed)
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Playbill for the Theatre Royal, Town Hall, Oxford, Friday 18 August 1865, advertising the 'Immense Attraction for the Race Nights', Thursday and Friday under the immediate patronage of the Earl of Westmorleland and Sir Fred. Johnstone, Bart., the Stewards of the Races. On Friday, 18th August Palgrave Simpson's Comedietta, The School of Coquettes, with Henry Irving as Sir Aubrey Glenmorris, followed by a Jockey Hornpipe by Misses C & F Taylor, folled by Madison Morton's farce The Steeplechase, or, In The Pigskin, concluding with the Burlesque Extravaganza by F.C. Burnand, Ixion! or, the Man at the Wheel.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Printed paper |
| Brief description | Letterpress playbill for The Theatre Royal, Town Hall, Oxford, 18 August 1865, advertising The School for Coquettes, with Henry Irving as Sir Aubrey Glenmorris, followed by The Steeplechase, or, In The Pigskin, concluding with Ixion! or, The Man at the Wheel. |
| Physical description | Letterpress broadsheet playbill, printed in black ink on very flimsy white paper. |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
| Credit line | Given by the British Theatre Museum Association |
| Object history | Part of the Henry Irving Archive, given to the British Theatre Museum Association in January 1959. |
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| Summary | Playbill for the Theatre Royal, Town Hall, Oxford, Friday 18 August 1865, advertising the 'Immense Attraction for the Race Nights', Thursday and Friday under the immediate patronage of the Earl of Westmorleland and Sir Fred. Johnstone, Bart., the Stewards of the Races. On Friday, 18th August Palgrave Simpson's Comedietta, The School of Coquettes, with Henry Irving as Sir Aubrey Glenmorris, followed by a Jockey Hornpipe by Misses C & F Taylor, folled by Madison Morton's farce The Steeplechase, or, In The Pigskin, concluding with the Burlesque Extravaganza by F.C. Burnand, Ixion! or, the Man at the Wheel. |
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| Accession number | S.324-2001 |
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| Record created | June 14, 2001 |
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