image_credits.txt

<p>The image collage that is displayed on the landing page and in the background of the search, results, and events pages was created by Dustin Olson, and is covered by a <a href=“https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/”>CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license</a>.</p>
<p>Clockwise from top left:</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/engraving-of-the-screen-scene-from-sheridans-the-school-for-scandal”>“Scene from <i>School for Scandal</i> being performed in Drury Lane Theatre, London,”</a> 1778, © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license</p>
<p><a href=“https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3653228”>William Blake, “<i>Beggar’s Opera</i>, Act III,”</a> c.1790, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, Public Domain</p>
<p><a href=“https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1670672”>Thomas Rowlandson, “An Audience Watching a Play at Drury Lane Theatre,”</a> c.1785, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, Public Domain</p> 
<p><a href=“https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/playbills-for-performances-in-london-and-bristol-1774-77”> Playbill from Burney Collection, “‘Theatrical Register.’ A collection of playbills of London theatres, chiefly of Drury Lane, Covent Garden and the Haymarket,”</a> 1774-1777, British Library, Public Domain</p>
<p><a href=“https://collections.folger.edu/detail/mr-garrick-delivering-his-ode-at-drury-lane-theatre-on-dedicating-a-building-%26-erecting-a-statue-to-shakespeare-/20b6c08e-1e0f-4167-bcf2-83fdf4f9bdff”>John Lodge, “Mr. Garrick delivering his Ode at Drury Lane Theatre on dedicating a building & erecting a statue to Shakespeare,”</a> Folger Shakespeare Library, CC-BY-SA 4.0 license</p> 
<p><a href=“https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=1613044433&objectId=3411178&partId=1”>“Riot at Covent Garden Theatre, in 1763, in consequence of the Managers refusing to admit half-price in the Opera of <i>Artaxerxes</i>,”</a> 1763, © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 License</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/portrait-of-aphra-behn-by-sir-peter-lely”>Peter Lely, “Aphra Behn,”</a> 1670, © Yale Center for British Art, Public Domain</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/third-edition-of-the-beggars-opera-by-john-gay-1729”>John Gay, <i>The beggar's opera. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn Fields</i>,</a> 1729, British Library, Public Domain</p>
<p><a href=“https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1668358”>Edward Fisher, “Miss Farren in the Character of Hermione,”</a> 1781, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, Public Domain</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?assetId=290264001&objectId=752512&partId=1”>“Scene One of <i>The Necromancer or Harlequin Dr Faustus</i> which opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields 20 December 1723,”</a> 1724, © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3553320&partId=1&searchText=theatre+ticket&images=true&from=ad&fromDate=1660&to=ad&toDate=1800&page=3”>Thomas Bewick, “Border for theatre-ticket; concert for the benefit of Mr Evans, at the Theatre Royal in Haymarket, London, on 11 April 1777,”</a> 1777, © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license</p>