On the stage of the Drury Lane Theatre, Comedy is hanged, Tragedy is stabbed, and Sheridan the playwright lies dead drunk as the theatre is given over to animal entertainments. Coloured etching by S. De Wilde, 1808.

Selected images from this work

A man paints black spots on to a white dog while another man inflates a bear skin. On the right a troup of dancing dogs is trained

[London ([Leadenhall Street]) : Published for The satirist by S. Tipper, 1 May 1808]

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 17 x 33.3 cm

A new drop scene for D.L.T. Vide page 227. Thaumaso Scrutiny Esq.r delt & sculp. Published for The satirist.

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1947, vol. 8, no. 11079