• Title
  Item 06: Seal of ‘B. Levey Theatre Royal Sydney’, [between 1832-1836]
• Call number
  SAFE/DR 278/Item 6
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  [between 1832-1836]
• Type of material
  Objects
• Reference code
  1037291
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  2 seals - red wax, on card
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Barnett Levey opened the Theatre Royal (the saloon of the Hotel Royal) on Boxing Day 1832.
  At the end of the 1835 season the Sydney Monitor declared the Theatre Royal to be neither respectable nor profitable. Joseph Wyatt became the sole lessee of Barnett Levey's Theatre Royal in mid-1836. On 27 March 1838 Mrs Levey closed the Theatre Royal.
  
  Reference:
  Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991
• Scope and Content
  2 impressions of the seal in 2 shades of red wax
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1037302
• Name
  Levey, Barnett, 1798-1837
  Theatre Royal (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Subject
  Theaters--New South Wales--Sydney.
  
• Topic
  seals (insignia)
  theatres & cinemas
  theatre managers
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3320993

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