• Title
  Page 128: Jones's Royal Circus. New South Wales; Or, Love in Botany Bay [playbill, 1798].
• Call number
  SAFE/MLMSS 7631 page 128
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  1798
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Ephemera
• Reference code
  456554
• Physical Description
  Ephemera - 1 broadside - playbill :
  
• Scope and Content
  `New South Wales; Or, Love in Botany Bay' being playbill for an `Entire New Grand Spectacle, principally founded on recent Events, with entire new Scenery, Machinery, Dresses and Decorations' performed at Jones's Royal Circus, St George's Fields. This spectacle was invented and produced under the direction of writer and actor, John Cartwright Cross.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Part of: G. D. Whittington - `Theatrical Scraps consisting of Various Casts of Shakespears Plays, & other Stock Pieces. Also many other things relating to the Theatres of London', 1782-1799 (MLMSS 7631 page 128)
  John Cartwright Cross became manager of the Royal Circus in 1796, and a proprietor in 1798. `New South Wales; Or, Love in Botany Bay' was performed from August to October 1798. The earliest reference to it in the Times Digital Archive is dated Saturday, 25 August 1798.
  This play was possibly based on information taken from David Collins' recently published "An account of the English Colony of New South Wales", 1798
  Digital order no:a1479005
• Name
  Bennelong, approximately 1764-1813
  Jones's Royal Circus (London, England)
  
• Subject
  Printed ephemera--Great Britain--18th century.
  Theater--England--London--History--18th century.
  Theatrical companies--England--London--18th century.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Eora: Mapping Aboriginal Sydney, 1770-1850 - State Library of New South Wales (5 June - 13 August, 2006)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE10463563

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