Tickets and Passes, Co DUBLIN, Dublin, Private Theatre [1796], copper, by W. Mossop, robed figures of Tragedy, Comedy and Lyric supporting scroll, rev. un-named, 35mm, 13.77g (W 35; D & W 5/41). Lacquered, otherwise very fine, very rare
£200-£260

Provenance: Glendining Auction, 12 December 1999, lot 579; P. Jones Collection.

Dissatisfaction among certain of the nobility and gentry in Dublin with the way affairs were being conducted at the city’s Theatre Royal led to the establishment in 1796 of a Private Theatre at Fishamble street, under the management of the Earl of Westmeath and Frederick Jones, a theatre promoter and gentleman of independent means from Vesington, co Meath