World War I: wounded sailors watching a play (at Netley Hospital?). Oil painting by Godfrey Jervis Gordon ("Jan Gordon").

Four men and a woman in the audience of a theatre, seated in the front box above the orchestra. Lithograph after Grenier.

Roués at the theatre in the company of women dancers, one of whom sits down to tie up her ballet pumps. Process print, ca. 1890.

A woman in an opera box is using her opera glasses to peer across the theatre to see who is there. Etching after G. Cruikshank.

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Roués at the theatre in the company of women dancers, one of whom sits down to tie up her ballet pumps. Process print, ca. 1890.

World War I: wounded sailors watching a play (at Netley Hospital?). Oil painting by Godfrey Jervis Gordon ("Jan Gordon").

Four men and a woman in the audience of a theatre, seated in the front box above the orchestra. Lithograph after Grenier.

A woman in an opera box is using her opera glasses to peer across the theatre to see who is there. Etching after G. Cruikshank.