The Prospect Before Us, Humanely Inscrib'd to all those Professors of Music and Dancing Whom the Cap May Fit

Thomas Rowlandson British
 Publisher S. W. Fores British

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Describes the difficulties of the Italian dancers and musicians, occasioned by the demolition of the Drury Lane theater and subsequent construction of the Opera House in Haymarket, leading them to make a public appeal for charity. One of the figures carries a model of the new theater.

The Prospect Before Us, Humanely Inscrib'd to all those Professors of Music and Dancing Whom the Cap May Fit, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Etching

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