Cartoon, Dilettanti Theatricals
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
Picture No
10956071
Media ID
48223587
Size
6425px x 4139px
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Credit
© The Sharp Illustration Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Cartoon in The Works of James Gillray, the Caricaturist; with the History of His Life and Times, edited by Thomas Wright, 1873
Date
1803
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1803 Amateur Amateurs Aristocratic Comment Criticism Dilettante Fitzherbert Gillray Harsh Immoral Immorality Orgies Orgy Peep Rehearsing Theatricals Vide
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