A woman in an opera box is using her opera glasses to peer across the theatre to see who is there. Etching after G. Cruikshank.

1810-1819

1 print : etching ; image 30 x 20.8 cm

May I die if there isn't Sir George, charming man as I live he's looking this way. O. the dear fellow!! Vide the Opera boxes.

Exhibited in “In Plain Sight” at Wellcome Collection, 20 October 2022- 12 February 2023 – 5UkLW

Wellcome Collection 32442i

After: an etching published in London on 9 August 1817 by S.W. Fores with an attribution to George Cruikshank. 'The opera boxes' was a different etching by him on the same theme