Sketches from the King's Theatre
1835
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1835
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Sketches from the King's Theatre is a 1835 by Thomas McLean & Co, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows three sisters from a famous Regency family. It was made in 1835 by Thomas McLean & Co. The sisters were called “the Three Graces” for their beauty and sharp minds. They were daughters and granddaughters of well-known writers and theatre managers. Their lives mixed high society, art, and scandal. See more prints by McLean & Co. at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The print *The Weird Sisters*, No. 1 from *Sketches from the King's Theatre* (1835), is a black-and-white lithograph mounted on card showing the three Sheridan sisters—Helen Blackwood, Caroline Norton, and Georgiana Seymour—in a theatre box. Dressed in Regency fashion, two are shown in profile while the third holds an eye-glass to her face in a three-quarter view. The sisters, known as "the Three Graces" for their beauty and wit, were daughters of Thomas Sheridan and granddaughters of playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
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These 19th-century prints capture backstage life at London’s King’s Theatre in the 1830s, packed with quick, lively sketches of dancers, stagehands, and costume fittings.
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