Theatre and Entertainment, TICKETS and PASSES, Theatre and Entertainment, ST JAMES’S, Willis’s Rooms, 1813, a green stipple engraved Gentleman’s Ticket to the Amicable Assembly [Third Assembly] by R.W. Silvester, 27 Strand, robed female advancing right, heralded by two putto playing trumpets, named (Mr Richards, Thursday 4 July 1813, introduced by Jas. Cadogan, Subscriber), printed rules on the back, 122 x 81mm. Very fine, rare £40-60

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection.

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Provenance: Bt T. Millett June 2007.

Willis’s Rooms, King street, St James’s square, formerly Almack’s Assembly Rooms and originally opened in 1765, was a suite of apartments capable of accommodating nearly 1,000 persons. James Willis (†1794), proprietor of the nearby Thatched House tavern, acquired a sub-lease of the rooms and his descendants continued to manage them until the mid-1880s. His son, James Willis Jr (†1847) was the manager during the height of their popularity, between 1810 and 1830