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TICKETS AND PASSES OF LONDON FROM THE DAVID YOUNG COLLECTION (PART I)
TICKETS and PASSES, Theatre and Entertainment, HANOVER SQUARE, Hanover Square Rooms, 11 May 1789, an engraved admission ticket on card by F. Bartolozzi after G.B. Cipriani, winged female figure holding scroll of music, cherub at left playing flute, for the benefit of mr borghi on banner above, 143 x 105mm. Very fine, rare £100-150
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Provenance: Tim Millett FPL 2007 (72).
Luigi Borghi (1745-1806), violinist and composer, later acting manager of the opera company at the Pantheon Theatre. His benefit concert consisted of two performances of musical recitals. The tickets, available from Mr Borghi at 5 John street, Great Portland street, cost half-a-guinea each.
The Hanover Square Rooms were acquired by Sir John Gallini in 1774 and converted into a venue for concerts, the first of which was staged in February 1775. It remained one of London's principal concert venues until closure in 1874
TICKETS and PASSES, Theatre and Entertainment, HANOVER SQUARE, Hanover Square Rooms, 11 May 1789, an engraved admission ticket on card by F. Bartolozzi after G.B. Cipriani, winged female figure holding scroll of music, cherub at left playing flute, for the benefit of mr borghi on banner above, 143 x 105mm. Very fine, rare £100-150
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Provenance: Tim Millett FPL 2007 (72).
Luigi Borghi (1745-1806), violinist and composer, later acting manager of the opera company at the Pantheon Theatre. His benefit concert consisted of two performances of musical recitals. The tickets, available from Mr Borghi at 5 John street, Great Portland street, cost half-a-guinea each.
The Hanover Square Rooms were acquired by Sir John Gallini in 1774 and converted into a venue for concerts, the first of which was staged in February 1775. It remained one of London's principal concert venues until closure in 1874