| Housekeeping |
£15 5s 6d |
Departmental |
Housekeeper's bill |
Written as part of a longer entry, "Housekeeper's bill (Williams [?] bill 13. 13. 0)", £28 18s 6d. The identity of "Williams [?]" is unclear, but he may have been the "Mr Williams painter" paid via De Loutherbourg the previous month, on 25 January 1777. Drury Lane normally in 1775-81, and sometimes in 1781-1802, included its properties bills (and perhaps some painters’ bills) in its housekeepers' bills, without distinguishing the amount paid on each. The relevant payments have been categorised “Housekeeping”, because the properties and painters evidently fell in the housekeepers’ remit in such cases, in both conceptual and practical terms. But note that properties and scene painters (if such they were) belong rather in “Properties, Scenes and Machines”. |