Engraved and illustrated subscriber's admission concert ticket

by Francis Haward after Robert Smirk for the Commemoration of Handel, third performance the Messiah at Westminster-Abbey,

$850 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Stipple engraving in dark brown ink within an oval frame depicting a young woman representing Britannia facing and gesturing to a monument to Handel in the background. A putti next to the woman drapes a floral arrangement over a headstone; a sad-faced lion to the figure's right looks at the viewer; Westminster Abby appears in the background. With THE DEAD SHALL LIVE. THE LIVING DIE at head, with decorative floral motive with musical instruments and the words MAY 29 MESSIAH

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