Watercolour. 10½ by 7¾ in.
The first theatre on this site (designed by Sir John Vanbrugh) was
opened in 1705 and burnt down in 1789. The second building, which is
here represented, was begun in 1790, and was enlarged by J. Nash and
G. S. Repton in 1816-8.
R. B. Schnebbelie, whose father also practised art, and whose
grandfather, a native of Zurich, had been in the Dutch navy, was
employed as a draughtsman for many years beginning about 1803, and
did much good work for Wilkinson’s “Londina Illustrata”; this is the
original of an engraving in that publication. He died about 1849.
By R. B. SCHNEBBELIE, 1819.
_Lent by H.M. the King._