Sadlers Collection

Cinderella ballet, Ugly Sisters trying to dance
The Ugly Sisters try to follow their dancing master while Cinderella stands disconsolately by the fire. A scene from a ballet version of Cinderella, based on French and Spanish fairytales

Hogarth, Four Times of the Day, Evening
Hogarth, Four Times of the Day, 3. Evening. The original Sadlers Wells Theatre building can be seen on the left. A cow is being milked, suggesting that it is around five o clock

Sadlers Wells Theatre - Rosebery Avenue, London. Opening as the first musick house in 1683, the theatre has been used for many types of performance and rebuilt several times. Date: circa 1910s

Sadlers Wells, Theatre, London
Exterior of Sadlers Wells, Theatre. Date: 1830

Aladdin pantomime, Ye Olde Sadlers Wells Theatre, London, from 24 December 1902, twice nightly, including 100 local children, comic harlequinade. Blue and white Chinese plate design. Date: 1902

Reopening of Sadlers Wells Theatre, Sermon
Reopening of Sadlers Wells Theatre, London, 26 July 1845, Sermon by Rev William Owen of Chadwell Street Chapel Date: 1845

Giovanni Battista Belzoni at Sadlers Wells Theatre
Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Italian explorer and archaeologist, at Sadlers Wells Theatre, London, as the Patagonian Samson, wearing a strongmans costume made of fur, and an ostrich feather headdress

Claude Newman in his Cossack dance in Casse-Noisette at Sadlers Wells, London, 1927 Date: 1927

Interior pages of The Illustrated London News, 1849
Example of a double page spread from The Illustrated London News, dated 17th March 1849. Pictured here is heroic young seaman Lieutenant Molesworth

Sadlers Wells Theatre, London. 1765

RURAL / HOGARTH / EVENING
3. Evening The original Sadlers Wells building. The horns behind the husbands head suggest that he has been cuckolded. Date: 1738

Hogarth, Four Times of the Day, Evening
Hogarth, Four Times of the Day, 3. Evening. The original Sadlers Wells Theatre building can be seen on the left. A cow is being milked, suggesting that it is around five oclock

Sadler, Walsall
A skilled saddle maker at work on his bench in Walsall, West Midlands Date: 1987

June Brae and Robert Helpmann in Adam Zero at Sadlers Wells
June Brae (1917-2000) and Robert Helpmann (1909-1986) in Adam Zero, a ballet with music composed by Arthur Bliss and choreographed by Robert Helpmann in 1946 - performed at the Sadlers Wells Theatre

Cinderella ballet, Cinderella and Prince Charming dance
The Ugly Sisters watch with jealousy as Cinderella (in disguise) dances with Prince Charming at the ball. A scene from a ballet version of Cinderella, based on French and Spanish fairytales

Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann, Sadlers Wells
British ballets most famous partnership at that time -- Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991) and Robert Helpmann (1909-1986) on stage at Sadlers Wells, London, in a production of Giselle. 1937

Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpman in The Wanderer
Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpman in the Spring 1941 Sadlers Wells production of Schuberts The Wanderer at The New Theatre, London - choreography by Frederick Ashton with sets by Graham Sutherland

Caricature of Arthur McKee Rankin, Canadian actor
Caricature of Arthur McKee Rankin (1844-1914), Canadian actor active in America, especially California. He toured England with Joaquin Millers play, The Danites, which was performed at Sadlers Wells

Caricature of F B Chatterton and Leopold Lewis
Caricature of Frederick Balsir Chatterton (1834-1886), theatre manager, and Leopold Davis Lewis (1828-1890), dramatist. What will they do at the Wells? 1881

Cruikshank / Sadlers Wells
GEORGE CRUIKSHANK artist at a temperance meeting at Sadlers Wells Theatre: he is on the stage, just to the left of the woman with the two little boys Date: 1792-1878

James Sadlers ascent
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint of James Sadlers ascent from Merton Fields, Oxford, 7 July 1810 [Cuthbert-Hodgson Collection]

William Elmes Prime Bang Up at Hackney [Caricature of Sadlers Eighteenth Ascent form the gardens of the Mermaid Tavern, Hackney. 12 August, 1811]. [Cuthbert-Hodgson Collection]

Sadlers Wells
The Wells in the 18th century

Theatre / Sadlers Wells
Opening as the first musick house in 1683, Sadlers Well in London has been used for many types of performance and rebuilt several times

Hogarth Times Evening
3. Evening The original Sadlers Wells building. The horns behind the husbands head suggest that he has been cuckolded

Sadlers Wells 1827
Boys fishing across the canal from the theatre

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