The Prospect Before Us, Respectfully dedicated to those Singers, Dancers, & Musical Professors, who are fortunately engaged with the Proprietor of the Kings Theatre, at the Pantheon

Thomas Rowlandson|S. W. Fores

January 13, 1791 · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints

The Prospect Before Us, Respectfully dedicated to those Singers, Dancers, & Musical Professors, who are fortunately engaged with the Proprietor of the Kings Theatre, at the Pantheon — Thomas Rowlandson|S. W. Fores

The interior of the Pantheon, reconstructed as a theater, seen from the stage. Two opera dancers hold garlands of roses in the foreground. The theater is crowded with admiring spectators.

Artist: Thomas Rowlandson|S. W. Fores
Date: January 13, 1791
Medium: Hand-colored etching
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959