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Frontispiece. Drury Lane Theatre, auditorium.
From a watercolour of 1795 by Edward Dayes
in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art
Gallery, California
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(a) Extract from Hollar's bird's-eye view of
West London. From the engraving in the
British Museum, Parthey 1002 in Hollar,
vol. viii, p. 38 |
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(b) Extract from Ogilby and Morgan's map
of 1681–2. From the map in the Crace
Collection in the British Museum, Maps portfolio ii
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Extract from Rocque's map of 1746 |
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(a), (b) Extracts from plans of 1795 and 1866.
From the plans in the possession of the Trustees
of the Bedford Settled Estates
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Drury Lane Theatre |
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4. |
Design for a playhouse. Reproduced by permission of the Warden and Fellows from the
Wren drawings at All Souls College, Oxford,
vol. iv, no. 81 |
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(a) Section for a playhouse. Reproduced by
permission of the Warden and Fellows from the
Wren drawings at All Souls College, Oxford,
vol. ii, no. 81 |
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(b) Frontispiece for an opera. From the engraving in Pierre Perrin, Ariadne or The
Marriage of Bacchus, 1674 |
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Extract from plan of c. 1748. From a plan in
the possession of the Trustees of the Bedford
Settled Estates, now deposited in Greater
London Record Office
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7. |
Plan of 1778. From a plan by J. Hele in the
possession of the Trustees of the Bedford
Settled Estates, now deposited in Greater
London Record Office
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Brydges Street front. From an engraving in
The Works in Architecture of Robert and
James Adam, 1779, vol. ii, set v, plate vi
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(a) Auditorium. From an engraving in The
Works in Architecture of Robert and James
Adam, 1779, vol. ii, set v, plate vii
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(b) The 'screen scene' in The School for Scandal. From an engraving of 1778 in the British
Museum Department of Prints and Drawings,
Garrick portfolio (pressmark 175 b I, f. 26,
no. 80) |
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(a), (b) Designs by Robert Adam for auditorium ceiling, 1775–6. From Sir John
Soane's Museum, Adam drawings, vol. 14,
nos. 17 and 16 |
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(a) Design by Robert Adam for proscenium,
1775. From Sir John Soane's Museum, Adam
drawings, vol. 27, no. 85 |
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(b) Auditorium in 1792. From an engraving
in Robert Wilkinson's Theatrum Illustrata,
1825, vol. ii
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(a), (b) Section and plan by Henry Holland.
From drawings in the Victoria and Albert
Museum Department of Prints and Drawings,
no. 7075 |
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(a), (b) Section and plan by Henry Holland.
From Sir John Soane's Museum, Soane
drawings, drawer 61, nos. 34, 36 |
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Longitudinal section by Henry Holland.
From Sir John Soane's Museum, Soane
drawings, drawer 61, no. 35 |
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Plan at fourth tier level. Reproduced by permission from a drawing in Mr. Robert
Eddison's collection
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(a), (b), (c) Plans at first tier, pit and basement
levels. Reproduced by permission from drawings in Mr. Robert Eddison's collection
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(a), (b), (c) Plans at upper gallery, third and
second tier levels. Reproduced by permission
from drawings in Mr. Robert Eddison's
collection
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(a) Auditorium. From an aquatint by T.
Rowlandson and A. Pugin in R. Ackermann's
The Microcosm of London, vol. i, 1808,
p. 228 |
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(b) Auditorium. From an engraving in Robert
Wilkinson's Theatrum Illustrata, 1825, vol.
ii
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(a) Auditorium. From a drawing of 1805 by
William Capon in Sir John Soane's Museum,
Soane drawings, drawer 61, no. 33 |
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(b) Auditorium. From a drawing by William
Capon, reproduced by permission from Mr.
Robert Eddison's collection
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(a) Unexecuted arcaded design. From an engraving by F. Francia of 1793 in the Crace
Collection in the British Museum, Views portfolio xviii, sheet 68 |
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(b) Unexecuted arcaded design. From an
engraving of a drawing of 1793 by Thomas
Malton, reproduced by permission of Guildford
Museum and Muniment Room
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(c) Colonnaded design. From a drawing in the
Crace Collection in the British Museum,
Views portfolio xviii, sheet 67 |
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(a), (b) Exterior as built looking west and
east. From engravings of drawings by William
Capon in the Crace Collection in the British
Museum, Views portfolio xviii, sheet 68 |
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(c) Exterior after fire of 1809. From a drawing by Bryant in the Crace Collection in the
British Museum, Views portfolio xviii, sheet 69 |
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(a), (b) B. D. Wyatt's preliminary designs,
1810, plans. From drawings in the library
of the Royal Institute of British Architects
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(a), (b), (c) B. D. Wyatt's preliminary designs, 1810, elevations and sketch for proscenium. From drawings in the library of the
Royal Institute of British Architects
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(a), (b) B. D. Wyatt's revised designs, 1811,
plans. From drawings in Sir John Soane's
Museum, Soane drawings, drawer 61, nos. 15
and 13 |
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(a), (b), (c) B. D. Wyatt's revised designs,
1811, elevations and section. From drawings
in Sir John Soane's Museum, Soane drawings,
drawer 61, nos. 20, 21, 24 |
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(a), (b), (c) B. D. Wyatt's executed designs,
plans. From engravings in B. D. Wyatt's
Observations on the Design for the Theatre
Royal, Drury Lane, 1813, plates 7, 5, 3 |
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(a), (b) B. D. Wyatt's executed designs,
proscenium elevation and section. From
engravings in B. D. Wyatt's Observations
etc., 1813, plates 10, 9 |
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(a), (b) B. D. Wyatt's executed designs,
sections. From engravings in B. D. Wyatt's
Observations etc., 1813, plates 11, 12 |
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(a) B. D. Wyatt's penultimate design for
front. From a drawing in the library of the
Royal Institute of British Architects
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(b) B. D. Wyatt's executed design, exterior.
From an engraving in B. D. Wyatt's Observations etc., 1813, frontispiece
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(a) Plan at first tier box level. Reproduced by
permission from a drawing in Mr. Robert
Eddison's collection
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(b) Plan at entrance level. From an engraving
in Illustrations of the Public Buildings of
London, by J. Britton and A. Pugin, 1825,
vol. i
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(a), (b) Cross and longitudinal sections.
From engravings in Illustrations of the Public
Buildings of London by J. Britton and A.
Pugin, 1825, vol. i
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(a) Auditorium in 1813. From an engraving
in Westminster City Library
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(b) Auditorium. From an engraving in
Illustrations of the Public Buildings of
London by J. Britton and A. Pugin, 1825,
vol. i
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(a) Proscenium in 1842. From a lithograph in
the Guildhall Library
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(b) Auditorium in 1841. From a lithograph
in Westminster City Library
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(a), (b) Auditorium in 1897–8. Reproduced
by permission from photographs in the Raymond
Mander and Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection
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(a) Auditorium in 1921. Reproduced by permission from a photograph in the Raymond
Mander and Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection
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(b) Auditorium in 1922. Photograph, the
National Monuments Record
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(a), (b) Rotunda and staircase in 1965.
Photograph by A. F. Kersting. Copyright
Abelard-Schuman Limited
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(a), (b) Saloon and royal retiring room in
1965. Photograph by A. F. Kersting. Copyright Abelard-Schuman Limited
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(a), (b) Entrance front and Russell Street
colonnade in 1965. Photograph by A. F.
Kersting. Copyright Abelard-Schuman Limited
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Covent Carden Theatre |
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Plan of c. 1760. From a plan in the possession
of the Trustees of the Bedford Settled Estates,
now deposited in Greater London Record
Office
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Plan and section, c. 1774. From an engraving
in Parallele de Plans des Plus Belles Salles de
Spectacles d'Italie et de France par le Sieur
Dumont |
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(a) Entrance from Piazza. Detail from a
watercolour in Crowle's extra-illustrated copy
of Pennant in the British Museum Department
of Prints and Drawings, vol. 6 |
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(b) Proscenium. From an engraving in
Theophilus Cibber to David Garrick . . . c. 1759 (copy in British Museum, pressmark
80 i 15) |
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(c) Auditorium and stage during riots of
1763. From an engraving in the King's
Topographical Collection in the British
Museum, vol. xxv
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(a) Auditorium. Reproduced by permission
from an engraving in Mr. Robert Eddison's
collection
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(b) Auditorium in 1786. From an engraving
in Rowlandson Satires 1786 (7063), 1894, in
the British Museum Department of Prints and
Drawings
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(c) Plans. From an engraving in George
Saunders's A Treatise on Theatres, 1790,
plate x
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(a), (b) Survey plans, 1791. Reproduced by
permission from drawings in Mr. Robert
Eddison's collection
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(a), (b) H. Holland's first designs, 1791,
section and plan. Reproduced by permission
from drawings in Mr. Robert Eddison's
collection
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(a) Survey plan, c. 1808. From a drawing in
the Crace Collection in the British Museum,
Maps portfolio xiii, sheet 47 |
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(b) H. Holland's elevation for Hart Street
front, 1792. Reproduced by permission from a
drawing in Mr. Robert Eddison's collection
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(a) Auditorium. Reproduced by permission
from an undated sketch by W. Capon in Mr.
Robert Eddison's collection
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(b) Auditorium. From an engraving in Robert
Wilkinson's Theatrum Illustrata, 1825, vol. ii
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(a) Auditorium. Reproduced by permission
from an undated drawing by A. Van Assen in
Mr. Robert Eddison's collection
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(b) Auditorium. From an aquatint by T.
Rowlandson and A. Pugin in R. Ackermann's
The Microcosm of London, vol. i, 1808,
p. 212 |
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Bow Street front. Reproduced by permission
from an undated drawing by W. Capon in
Mr. Robert Eddison's collection
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(a) Bow Street front in 1809. From an engraving in the King's Topographical Collection
in the British Museum, vol. xxv
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(b) Bow Street front. From an undated aquatint in the Crace Collection in the British
Museum, Views portfolio xviii, sheet 57 |
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(a) Bow Street front. Reproduced by permission from an undated drawing in Mr.
Robert Eddison's collection
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(b) Bow Street front and sections. From an
engraving in Illustrations of the Public
Buildings of London, by J. Britton and A.
Pugin, 1825, vol. i
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(a), (b) Statues and frieze on Bow Street front.
From undated drawings by J. W. Archer in
the British Museum Department of Prints
and Drawings, vol. 10, nos. 355, 354 |
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(c) North and west fronts. From an undated
drawing by F. Winston in the Crace Collection
in the British Museum, Views portfolio xviii,
sheet 58 |
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(a) Plan. From an undated drawing in the
Crace Collection in the British Museum, Maps
portfolio xviii
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(b) Plan. From an engraving in Illustrations
of the Public Buildings of London, by
J. Britton and A. Pugin, 1825, vol. i
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(a), (b) Sections. From engravings in Illustrations of the Public Buildings of London,
by J. Britton and A. Pugin, 1825, vol. i
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(a) Auditorium in 1810. From an engraving
in Westminster City Library
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(b) Auditorium. From an aquatint by T.
Rowlandson and A. Pugin in R. Ackermann's
The Microcosm of London, vol. iii, 1809,
p. 263 |
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(a) Auditorium. From an engraving in
Illustrations of the Public Buildings of
London, by J. Britton and A. Pugin, 1825,
vol. i
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(b) Auditorium in 1833. Reproduced by
permission from an engraving in Mr. Robert
Eddison's collection
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(a) Staircase. From an engraving in The
Covent Garden Journal by John J. Stockdale,
vol. i, 1810, facing p. 55 |
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(b) Staircase. From an engraving in Illustrations of the Public Buildings of London,
by J. Britton and A. Pugin, 1825, vol. i
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(c) Saloon in 1810. Reproduced by permission
from an aquatint in Mr. Robert Eddison's
collection
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(a), (b) Ceiling and auditorium. From engravings in The Illustrated London News,
10 April 1847, p. 268 and 6 December 1856,
p. 563 |
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(a), (b) Ruins after fire. From undated
drawings by J. W. Archer in the British
Museum Department of Prints and Drawings,
vol. 10, nos. 351–2 |
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Bow Street front in 1965. Photograph by
A. F. Kersting. Copyright Abelard-Schuman
Limited
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(a), (b) E. M. Barry's executed designs, east
and north elevations. From undated drawings
in the possession of the Trustees of the Bedford
Settled Estates, now deposited in Greater
London Record Office
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(a) E. M. Barry's executed design, west
elevation. From a drawing of 1857 in the
possession of the Trustees of the Bedford
Settled Estates, now deposited in Greater
London Record Office
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(b) Bow Street front in 1968. G.L.C. photograph
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Sections, plans and details. From engravings in Transactions of the Royal
Institute of British Architects, First Series,
vol. 10, 1859–60, between pp. 54–5 |
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(a) Auditorium. From an engraving in The
Illustrated London News, 10 July 1858, p. 33 |
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(b) Auditorium in 1897. Reproduced by permission from a photograph in the Raymond
Mander and Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection
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Auditorium in 1965. Photograph by A. F.
Kersting. Copyright Abelard-Schuman Limited
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(a), (b) Auditorium in 1948. Copyright
Country Life |
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(c) Auditorium in 1965. Photograph by
A. F. Kersting. Copyright Abelard-Schuman
Limited
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(a), (b), (c) Staircase, royal ante-room and
crush bar in 1948. Copyright Country Life |
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The Floral Hall |
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(a) Bow Street front. From an undated engraving in Westminster City Library
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(b) Piazza front and plan. From an engraving
in The Builder, II February 1860, p. 89 |
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(c) The Volunteers' Ball. From an engraving
in The Illustrated London News, 17 March
1860, p. 257 |
