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| Playbill for 27 June 1848 at Birmingham's Theatre Royal. Click to enlarge. |
Friday night, and an evening at the theatre may be the way to while-away the hours. Or, you could just look at some of this beautifully intricate graphic work on a Theatre Royal playbill from 1848.
If you do fancy a visit the Theatre Royal though, which was sadly demolished....twice (and it got burnt down in 1792 too), you can click here.
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| Close-up of some of the ornamentation (bottom left). |
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| Close-up of some of the ornamentation (top left). |
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| The usage of a more modern typeface for the period. |
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| The bill has a tiny bit of usage of sans-serif. |
The playbill was for a charitable event raising funds for the perpetual curatorship of Shakespeare's house. Among the actors was Charles Dickens, as was George Cruikshank, an well known illustrator of the day.
The bill was printed by Josiah Allen & Son on Colmore Row.