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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Shakspearean Festival, Stratford-upon-Avon, in commemoration of the adopted birth-day of his most gracious majesty, the festival of St. George, and the natal day of the most illustrious poet, Shakespeare, April 23rd, 1830, and following days, patron, the King.

Accession number
PML 198970
Published
[Stratford-upon-Avon, England] : [Royal Shakespearean Club], [1830]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2022.
Notes
Caption title.
Printed on two sheets, glued together.
Description
1 sheet ([1] pages) : illustration ; 111 x 27 cm
Summary
Poster advertising events on the first, second, and third days of the 1830 Royal Shakespeare Gala in Stratford-upon-Avon, including a dinner at the Royal Shakspearian (sic) Club, discharge of artillery, a masquerade featuring Chevalier Southby, the American tightrope walker Mr. Blackmore, fireworks, magic lantern show, and concluding with a 60-foot-tall "choragic monument" of Shakespeare and "transparent portrait of the immortal Bard."
Classification
Department