Harry Beard Print Collection
1804
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1804
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Harry Beard Print Collection is a 1804 by Unknown, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows Covent Garden Theatre’s interior in 1804. Gas footlights glow along the stage edge. Wooden boxes rise in neat rows. The audience looks small from the back, like tiny dots in a big room. Prints like this were cheap. People bought them to remember nights at the theater. They pasted these in scrapbooks or pinned them up. This one came from a magazine you can’t name now. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum’s online prints for more.
