Dilettanti Theatricals ...
James Gillray (Chelsea 1757 - London 1815)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1803
Materials
Paper
Measurements
426 x 617 mm; 377 mm (Height); 566 mm (Width); 317 mm (Height); 494 mm (Width)
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206147
Summary
Print, 'Dilettanti Theatricals ... or a Peep at the Green Room - vide Picnic Orgies'. J. Gillray inv and fect, Pub Feb 18th 1803 by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's St (see room book for details of characters). Stuck on backing mount. Black frame. Label on back - A Thome.
Provenance
Part of the Bambridge Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1976 by Mrs Elsie Bambridge (1896-1976)
Makers and roles
James Gillray (Chelsea 1757 - London 1815), caricaturist Hannah Humphrey, engraver and publisher