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  • Eight characters on stage wish their audience goodnight. Chromolithograph.
  • Burma: a puppet show with musicians and audience. Gouache painting.
  • An audience at a cockfight. Etching by E. Riepenhausen after W. Hogarth.
  • A Dutch quack doctor promoting his wares before an audience of townspeople. Etching.
  • A Dutch quack doctor promoting his wares before an audience of townspeople. Etching.
  • Agra, India: the Diwan-i-Am (Hall of Public Audience). Photograph, ca. 1900.
  • Detail of an audience at a cockfight. Etching by E. Riepenhausen after W. Hogarth.
  • A chemist gives a demonstration involving arsenic to an audience. Coloured lithograph by H. Daumier, 1841.
  • Two men reciting the Ramayana to an audience. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • Robert Macaire mesmerises an old lady in front of an audience. Coloured lithograph by H. Daumier.
  • Janina, Albania (subsequently Greece): the audience chamber of Ali Pasha. Colour lithograph after G.D. Beresford, 1855.
  • Two men performing a show to an audience at a public house, using sign language. Wood engraving, 1875.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares from a stage to a large audience in a town square. Engraving.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares from a stage to a large audience in a town square. Engraving.
  • A man from KAPTLD addressing an audience: support for those with tuberculosis in Kenya. Colour lithograph by KAPTLD, 2009.
  • A blind man plays the fiddle to a family audience. Colour engraving by J. Burnet after D. Wilkie, 1806.
  • A travelling tooth-drawer in a carriage extracting a tooth from a patient in front of a village audience. Lithograph.
  • A proscenium to be used in a toy theatre: stage front with surrounding boxes for the audience. Coloured lithograph, 18--.
  • A dressage arena with gentlemen and their horses rehearsing tourney exercises in front of an audience. Etching by C. Parrocel.
  • An itinerant musician playing to an audience using an instrument that is partly made out of an animals bladder. Drypoint.
  • Handel festival in the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, London: a large audience attending a concert. Wood engraving by J. Mahoney, 1865.
  • Detail of an audience at a cockfight with a man lighting his pipe. Etching by E. Riepenhausen after W. Hogarth.
  • A sextet of women musicians performing before an audience of men. Wood engraving by Swain after G. Du Maurier, 1875.
  • Michael Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institution: Prince Albert and his sons in the audience. Wood engraving, 1856, after A. Blaikley.
  • Michael Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institution: Prince Albert and his sons in the audience. Wood engraving, 1856, after A. Blaikley.
  • Hindu priest, or brahmin, and assistants, singing to a seated audience, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • Sir Isaac Newton (?) showing an optical experiment to an audience in his laboratory. Wood engraving by Martin after C. Laverie.
  • A strange looking man on a stage is being cheered on by his audience. Engraving by C. Grignion after R. Smirke.
  • An auctioneer selling fish from a platform to an excited audience, at Billingsgate Market. Coloured crayon-manner lithograph by M. Prior, 1870.
  • Four men and a woman in the audience of a theatre, seated in the front box above the orchestra. Lithograph after Grenier.