Drury Lane Collection (page 2)

View of the new theatre, Drury Lane, Westminster, London, c1813. Completed in 1812, this building designed by Benjamin Dean Wyatt replaced the previous theatre by Henry Holland that was destroyed by

Drury Lane, Westminster, London, 1851. Artist: Thomas Colman Dibdin
Drury Lane, Westminster, London, 1851. View looking south and showing the Cock and Magpie Tavern

Interior of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1810. Artist: Thomas Dale
Interior of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1810. Designed by Henry Holland, this was the third theatre to be built on the site. It opened in 1794 but was destroyed by fire in 1809

Members of the Hawaiian royal family at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, 1824
Members of the Hawaiian royal family at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Westminster, London, 1824. Their Majesties King Rheo Rhio, Queen Kamehameha, Madame Poki of the Sandwich Islands, and suite

The Theatrical Bubble... 1851. Richard Sheridan, as Punch, standing on a platform above the heads of a cheering crowd, blowing bubbles. Behind is Drury Lane Theatre with its statue of Apollo

A Bill of the Play, Cries of London, 1804
A Bill of the Play. Outside the entrance to the Drury Lane Theatre, a woman carrying a basket containing food holds out a handbill. From Cries of London, 1804

Four views of London sites seen through an arch, c1820. From top left, St Bride, Temple Bar, Waterloo Bridge and Drury Lane Theatre

A Rakes Progress, 1735, plate III of VIII. Artist: William Hogarth
A Rakes Progress, 1735, plate III of VIII. Tom Rakewell is in the Rose Tavern, on Drury Lane, London, being relieved of his pocket watch by two women

The Compleat trull at her lodging in Drury Lane, plate III of The Harlots Progress, 1732; the harlots handsome young lover has cost her an easy life with her Jewish protector

The Cock and Magpie Tavern, Drury Lane. Artist: Joseph Henderson
View of the Cock and Magpie Tavern, Drury Lane, London, 1890

The Drury Lane Company in A Run of Luck, at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, 1886. Artist: Barraud
The Drury Lane Company in A Run of Luck, at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, 1886. Left to right: EW Gardiner, William Rignold, Harry Nicholls, Sophie Eyre, Alma Murray and JG Grahame

Drury Lane Theatre, Westminster, London, 19th century. Artist: William Johnstone White
Drury Lane Theatre, Westminster, London, 19th century. The theatre burned down in a fire in 1809. The theatre that currently stands on the site, the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, was built in 1812

New Drury Lane Theatre, Westminster, London, 1813. Artist: Busby
New Drury Lane Theatre, Westminster, London, 1813. Completed in 1812, this building designed by Benjamin Dean Wyatt replaced the previous theatre by Henry Holland that was destroyed by fire in 1809

A scene from Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp, at Drury Lane Theatre, London, 1875. Artist: David Henry Friston
A scene from Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp, at Drury Lane Theatre, London, 1875. A print from The Illustrated London News, 9th January 1875

Scene from the pantomime The Forty Thieves at Dury Lane Theatre, London, 1887. A print from The Illustrated London News, 1st January 1887

A meeting of the Anti-Corn Law League in Drury Lane Theatre, London, 1838 (c1895). From Cassells Illustrated History of England, volume VII (c1895)

The cast from A Midsummer Nights Dream, the Green Room, Drury Lane Theatre, London, 1926-1927. The cast enjoy an old actors benevolence, food and drink paid for by Robert Baddeley

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish dramatist, poet and politician, c1875 (1878). Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (1751-1816), was a playwright, poet and owner of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London

A Rakes Progress - 3: The The Orgy, 1733. Artist: William Hogarth
A Rakes Progress - 3: The The Orgy, 1733. Tom Rakewell is in the Rose Tavern, on Drury Lane, London, being relieved of his pocket watch by two women

Drury Lane, c1860-1920 (1924). Artist: Paul Charles Renouard
Drury Lane, c1860-1920 (1924). A print from A History of French Etching from the 16th Century to the Present Day, by F L Leipnik, John Lane the Bodley Head Limited, London, 1924

Richs Glory: or his triumphant entry in Covent Garden, 1732. Artist: William Hogarth
Richs Glory: or his triumphant entry in Covent Garden, 1732. A procession marking John Richs entry into Covent Garden. On the right a carriage is being pulled by satyrs

Letter from Sir Richard Steele to Henry Pelham, 27th May 1720. Artist: Richard Steele
Letter from Sir Richard Steele to Henry Pelham, 27th May 1720. Letter to Henry Pelham, Secretary to Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, Lord Chamberlain

Buy a Bill of the Play, Drury Lane Theatre, London, 1805. A copper plate representing the itinerant traders of London, from Modern London; Being the History

A Harlots Progress, Plate 3, April 1732. Creator: William Hogarth
A Harlots Progress, Plate 3, April 1732

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