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Tragedy Spectators
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Date:
1787
Location:
Not on display
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Etching
Dimensions:
16.7 x 25.1 cm (image)
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Europe
Accession Number:
1963.30.2514
Acquisition Date:
1963-04-09
Credit Line:
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
An audience in a box at the theatre, moved, some to tears, by the performance they are watching. A pair to the print 'Comedy Spectators' originally issued from the same plate. Lettered within image with Rowlandson's publication line 'Publishd as the Act directs Octr 8th 1787 by T. Rowlandson No.50 Poland Street'.
Contemporaneous Works “Art from the same century and country”
Shakespeare - Winter's Tale - Act V, Scene III (18th–19th century)