Studio of scenery painter, Joseph Harker

Scene inside the studio of renowned scenery painter, Joseph and Phil Harker. They were the foremost firm for scenery painting in the London theatre world, and at the time this illustration was published, had just painted the scenery for the London Hippodrome's smash-hit production of Sunny'. Stage artists can be seen at work painting back-clothes on canvas with a series of weights and pulleys allowing the canvases to move up and down through the floor

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