Decorative arts — 1812
Ticket
Ivory admission ticket for Vauxhaull Gardens marked on the front with 'Vauxhall / 1812' and on the back with 'Mr Ware and Three'.
Between 1737 and 1760 the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens, Jonathan Tyers, issued around one thousand metal season tickets each year. Most had the name of a subscriber engraved on the reverse, and some are numbered or even dated.
Silver tickets still seem to have been used in the mid 1790s as the Sun Newspaper for 17 May 1794 offered six silver admission tickets as prizes for purchases of ordinary tickets to a masquerade.
Quite a number of metal season tickets have survived but it seems that ivory tickets like this one are rare.
- Category:
- Decorative arts
- Object ID:
- A21374
- Object name:
- ticket
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- Production date:
- 1812
- Material:
ivory
- Measurements/duration:
- L 55 mm, W 40 mm
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- On display:
- —
- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
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