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Henry Wigstead|Thomas Rowlandson|John Raphael Smith

January 5, 1811 · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints

A reissue of print first published 1786. A crowded room next to a theater, which is glimpsed through two open doors at right. Courtesans and ladies are being inspected by loungers, including Colonel George Hanger (later Lord Coleraine) with a club under his arm (his "Supple Jack"). Hanger looks at two attractive courtesans and fails to notice a pickpocket taking the seals from his fob. At right two more fashionably dressed women attract elderly admirers. Two sea captains regard a short elderly beau with contempt. Other figures include two "Don Juans", and a woman who sells oranges and programs and acts as a bawd. A playbill reads: "Theatre Royal Covent Garden / The Way of the World / Who's the Dupe."

Artist

Henry Wigstead|Thomas Rowlandson|John Raphael Smith

Date

January 5, 1811

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959