ca. 1870

Watercolour drawing over pencil, heightened with bodycolour and scratched out, of the interior of the New Theatre Royal, Bristol, c.1870, during a performance. Depicting the set consisting of a pillared classical building on stage with a throned woman, upstage right, surrounded by attendants. The view is from the front of the dress circle, showing the audience in the stalls and the orchestra, and the audience in the dress circle and upper circle, both stage right and stage left. The view includes the entire proscenium arch, the curtain, and the cupola of the ceiling, painted with a frieze of Greek maidens in white robes.