[Sarah Sophia Banks collection] [electronic resource], ca. 1740-1850 1780-1840.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Digital ; [Chicago, Ill.] : Adam Matthew Education [North American distributor, 2010]

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Subject(s)
Series
  • Victorian popular culture. Music hall, theatre and popular entertainment. [More in this series]
  • Victorian popular culture. Section III, Music hall, theatre and popular entertainment
Compiled/​Created
ca. 1740-1850 1780-1840.
Summary note
Electronic reproduction of the Sophia Sarah Banks scrapbooks in the British Library. Several scrapbooks from the British Library cover various popular entertainments in Britain from the late Georgian period onwards. Two scrapbooks are attributed to Sophia Sarah Banks, sister of the famous botanist, Joseph Banks. The first, comprised of over 400 pages, includes a large group of hand-coloured engravings, newspaper cuttings and handbills associated with ballooning, an activity that sparked public interest in the last quarter of the 18th century as the first experimental flights took place in Europe. A second scrapbook is variously attributed to Banks and Charles Burney (1757-1817), a classical scholar and prolific collector. This unique collection of playbills, notices, and press cuttings relates to private theatricals in England between 1750 and 1808, a popular form of entertainment in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloguer; resource viewed on 25 May 2011.
Location of originals
British Library
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