Plate 5: Early designs

Survey of London: Volume 35, the theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Originally published by London County Council, London, 1970.

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'Plate 5: Early designs', in Survey of London: Volume 35, the theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, ed. F H W Sheppard( London, 1970), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol35/plate-5 [accessed 28 September 2024].

'Plate 5: Early designs', in Survey of London: Volume 35, the theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Edited by F H W Sheppard( London, 1970), British History Online, accessed September 28, 2024, https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol35/plate-5.

"Plate 5: Early designs". Survey of London: Volume 35, the theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Ed. F H W Sheppard(London, 1970), , British History Online. Web. 28 September 2024. https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol35/plate-5.

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Section for a playhouse

Figure 5a:

Section for a playhouse. Reproduced by permission of the Warden and Fellows from the Wren drawings at All Souls College, Oxford, vol. iv, no.81.

Frontispiece for an opera

Figure 5b:

Frontispiece for an opera from the engraving in Pierre Perrin, Ariadne or The Marriage of Bacchus, 1674.