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.

  • Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
Date:
1810-1819
Reference:
32442i
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1810-1819

Physical description

1 print : etching ; image 30 x 20.8 cm

Lettering

May I die if there isn't Sir George, charming man as I live he's looking this way. O. the dear fellow!! Vide the Opera boxes.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 32442i

Reproduction note

After: an etching published in London on 9 August 1817 by S.W. Fores with an attribution to George Cruikshank. 'The opera boxes' was a different etching by him on the same theme

Exhibitions note

Exhibited in “In Plain Sight” at Wellcome Collection, 20 October 2022- 12 February 2023 – 5UkLW

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