Palace Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue London Antique Picture Print 1896

A black & white print, from a disbound book The Queen's London 1896 with another print on the reverse.

Antique photographic book plate. Some plates from this book have overpainted figures or other features

Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 11.5" x 9" or 29.5cm x 23cm, including text and border.

Actual picture size approx 8.875" x 6.5" or 22.5cm x 16.5cm

This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print, please view the scans as they form part of the description.  

All prints will be sent bagged and in a boarded envelope for maximum protection.  

While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item.

Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)

THE PALACE THEATRE.
It is generally admitted that the Palace Theatre is the most beautiful playhouse in London. "Regardless of expense," it was built for Mr. R. D'Oyly. Carte by Mr. T. E. Colcutt, the architect of the Imperial Institute, who was fortunate in obtaining such a splendid site as Cambridge Circus—where Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road meet—offers for display. The Royal English Opera House was opened with a great flourish of trumpets, and with the highest hopes, on January 31st, 1891, Sir Arthur Sullivan's grand opera "Ivanhoe" being then for the first time produced. But Mr. Carte's operatic scheme did not gain the support it deserved, and in July of the following year the name of the house was changed to the Palace Theatre. As a variety theatre it enjoys a high reputation—and no promenade.