The original Picture of London (1826) (14774711981)

Identifier: originalpictureo00felt (find matches)
Title: The original Picture of London
Year: 1826 (1820s)
Authors: (Feltham, John) (from old catalog) Britton, John, 1771-1857
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Publisher: London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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o someof the most distinguished votaries of fashionable life. The gallery is forty-two feet in depth, sixty-two inbreadth, contains seventeen benches, and holds eight hun-^dred persons. The lobbies are each about twenty feetsquare. The great Concert room is ninety-five feetlong, forty-six broad, thirty-five high, and is fitted up inthe first style of elegance. The Opera usually opens for the season in January, andcontinues its representations, on the Tuesday and Sa-turday of every week, till August. The attractions ofthis house, in a musical point of view, have been alreadynoliced. It remains to be added, that the ballets are gotup in a superior style of splendour: and the dancingis by the most celebrated performers. The doors areopened at a quarter before seven, and the performancesbegin at eight oclock.— Admissions to the boxes andpit are each 10^. 6d., and 5s. to the gallery. Theatre Royal, Haymarket* This theatre was erectedfrom the designs of John Nash Esq , and opened for dra-
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Quadrant- THEATRES. 357 matic exhibitions, July 4, 1821. The front is distin-guished by a handsome Corinthian portico of six columns:;and above the pediment are nine circular windows, con-nected by sculptured work, in a tasteful manner. Theauditory is remarkable for having the sides rectangular andthe centre very slightly curved, differing in this respectfrom any other theatre in London. The fronts of the boxesare decorated with gold chequered work, on a purpleground; and the whole interior is elegantly fitted up.This house opens during the summer months, for therepresentation of plays and farces. The term of its per-formances, formerly restricted to the period within thepatent, viz. from the 14th of May to the 14th of Septem-ber, has been recently extended to seven months. The price of admission to the boxes is 5s., to the pit 3s,,to the first gallery 2^., and to the second gallery is. Thedoors open at half past six oclock, and the performancebegins at seven. Half price is not taken