Now to the Drama turn - Oh! motley sight!

Photograph James Gillray (1756-1815). Blowing up the Pic Nics: or, Harlequin Quixote attacking the Puppets (London, April 2nd, 1802). Charles Williams. The Genius of Theatricals Bringing John Bull to His Senses!!! (London, 1806).


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Photograph August von Kotzebue (1761-1819). Pizarro. The Spaniards in Peru: manuscript [in an unidentified hand], 1799.

Guiseppe Naldi (1770-1820). Engraved portrait of Naldi (1809).



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Photograph Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Iohn Bull – Settling the Opera Disputes (London, 1808). Engraving of Miss Gayton (ca. 1809).

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Photograph Vincenzo Pucitta (1778-1861). Dolce Tranquillità ... in the Opera of I Villeggiatori Bizzarri (London, ca. 1809).


Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (1748-1825). Thoughts upon the Present Condition of the Stage, and upon the Construction of a New Theatre, New ed.
(London, 1809).
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