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The Exterior of the Park Theatre, New York City, 1798

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

Robert A. Gates
Affiliation:
St. John's University

Extract

Of particular interest to scholars of the early American theatre is a 1798 water-color by Cotton Milbourne entitled “Saint Paul's Chapel, Broadway Between Fulton and Vesey Streets,” in the possession of the New-York Historical Society. Besides depicting the Chapel, the watercolor shows the Park Theatre as it appeared at the time of its opening in 1798. As such, it replaces the unreliable Elkanah Tisdale engraving, found in David Longworth's 1797 American Almanack, New-York Register and City Directory, as the most accurate view of the theatre prior to its reconstruction in 1820.

Type
Notes and Documents
Copyright
Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1982

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