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Title: Shakespeare Jubilee ticket no. 54
Date Created and/or Issued: 1769
Publication Information: Honnold Mudd Library. Special Collections
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Philbrick Library Collection of Theater Letters
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact Honnold Mudd Library Special Collections at https://library.claremont.edu/scl/
Description: Numbered ticket is for David Garrick's Shakespeare Jubilee at Stratford upon Avon on September 6th and 7th of 1769. Tickets allows admission to "The Oratorio. The Dedication Ode. The Ball. And to the Great Booth at the Fireworks." Price of ticket is one guinea. Ticket includes an image of Shakespeare leaning on a column. On ticket can be seen the signature of George Garrick, David Garrick's younger brother. Ticket also contains a watermark, mostly intact wax seal, and a signature on right hand side.
Type: text
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: phl00539
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/phl/id/3034
Language: English
Subject: Columns
Garrick, David, 1717-1779
Garrick, George, 1723-1779
Odes, English
Oratorios
Parties
Sealing-wax
Seals (Closures)
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Signatures (Writing)
Stratford Jubilee (1769 : Stratford-upon-Avon, England)
Tickets
Watermarks
Source: Printed ticket, 5.38 x 10.13 inches: Philbrick Library of Dramatic Arts and Theatre History, Autograph letters box 6, folder 37; 2 pages

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