Silk playbill — Silk playbill advertising Mrs. Vaughan's Benefit concert, New Rooms, Hanover Square, London, 1807, UK, 1807, 1898
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1807, 1898
Silk playbill in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (museum number S.1663-2014), made in UK, dated 1807, 1898, attributed to Shury, Daniel Nathan. The museum's brief description reads: Silk playbill produced to advertise Mrs.
Vaughan's Benefit concert, New Rooms, Hanover Square, 20 April 1807. Museum description: Cream silk programme with three raw edges and one selvedge produced for a concert at the New Rooms, Hanover Square, 20th April 1807. The programme is printed in black ink with a list of the vocalists Mrs. Vaughan, Miss Parke, Miss Hawkins, Madame Bianchi, Mr. Harrison, Signor Naldi, William Knyvett, Mr. Bellamy, Mr. Goss, Mr. Vaughan, Mr.
Elliott, Mr. J. Elliott, Mr. Bartleman , the leader of the band Mr. F. Cramer, the conductor and organist Dr. Crotch, the violinist Mr. Yaniewicz. The programme is printed with names of the establishments where tickets are available, Mrs. Vaughan at her house in Dean Street, Mr. Birchall's Music Warehouse in New Bond Street, Messrs. Clementi & Co, Cheapside, and Mr. Kelly's Musical Saloon, Pall Mall. The museum records it as Printed silk, measuring Height 23.8 cm.
These details come from the museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
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Historical context
This satin playbill is an advertisement for Mrs. Vaughan's Benefit Concert in London, at the New Rooms, Hanover Square, on Monday 20th April 1807. As beneficiary Mrs. Vaughan would have been entitled to a percentage of the evening's takings for the evening, which is why she was one of the people responsible for selling tickets that could be purchased: 'at her house, No. 12, Dean Street, Soho'. At half a guinea a ticket it would have been in Mrs. Vaughan's interest to produce such unusually luxurious handbills in satin, usually reserved for programmes for special theatrical occasions, if they attracted wealthy patrons. This concert was related to the influential series of weekly 'Ancient Concerts ‘or 'Concerts of Ancient Music' that took place annually in London in February, March and April from 1776 when they were founded by 'a committee of noblemen and gentlemen'. They were paid for by subscribers who originally paid six guineas for the season, and from 1805 seven guineas due to their increasingly fashionable status. They started in the New Rooms, Tottenham Street (later the Queen's or West London Theatre), moved to the Great Room at the King's Theatre in 1795, and in 1804 to the New Rooms, Hanover Square where they were held until 1847. They consisted of two-part vocal and choral concert music that was over twenty years old, including a significant amount of music from Handel oratorio, and work by other composers including Corelli, Gluck and Geminiani. Mrs. Vaughan…
Physical characteristics
- Material
- Printed silk
- Dimensions
- Height 23.8 cm
Technical characteristics
- Technique
- Printed silk
- Maker recorded
- Shury, Daniel Nathan
- Place recorded
- UK
Identification
- Museum object name
- Silk playbill
- Museum object number
- S.1663-2014
- Museum system number
- O1300030
Catalogue references
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