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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 Wall Art
ART BY: Samuel de Wilde
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 Wall Art
ART BY: Samuel de Wilde
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About this artwork
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 is a caricatures, etchings by Samuel de Wilde (1751–1832), dated 1 May 1808]. The artist is catalogued as English. The source scan comes from the Wellcome Collection, and the file offered here measures 6000 × 3250 px (5.1 MB). It is filed under Prints and Neoclassicism, in landscape format. Archive Lane holds 36 works by Samuel de Wilde, a British artist.
Samuel De Wilde, born and died in London, was a portrait painter and etcher of Dutch descent famous for his theatrical paintings. He was the leading painter of actors and actresses between 1770 and 1820.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Samuel de Wilde →
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