The Prospect Before Us, Humanely Inscrib'd to all those Professors of Music and Dancing Whom the Cap May Fit
Thomas Rowlandson|S. W. Fores
January 13, 1791 · Etching · Drawings and Prints
Describes the difficulties of the Italian dancers and musicians, occasioned by the demolition of the Drury Lane theater and subsequent construction of the Opera House in Haymarket, leading them to make a public appeal for charity. One of the figures carries a model of the new theater.
- Artist
- Thomas Rowlandson|S. W. Fores
- Date
- January 13, 1791
- Medium
- Etching
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
