Cartoon, Dilettanti Theatricals

Contemporary society. Cartoon, Dilettanti Theatricals, or, a Peep at the Green Room, Vide Pic-Nic Orgies, by James Gillray. Showing the dressing room of a theatre in Tottenham Street, London, home of an amateur dramatic club called the Pic-Nic Society, whose aristocratic members were frequently ridiculed in the press, and accused of immorality. They are shown here preparing and rehearsing for a performance. Those present include the Prince of Wales and Mrs Fitzherbert

1802 Amateur Amateurs Aristocratic Comment Criticism Dilettante Fitzherbert Gillray Harsh Immoral Immorality Peep Rehearsing Theatricals Vide

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