Various Artists

Uses and Customs - Interior of La Scala Theatre in Milan - Lithograph - 1862

1862

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Uses and Customs - Saint Carlo Theatre in Naples is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " H...

Uses and Customs - Theatre of Brescia is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of t...

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Antique print titled 'New Covent Garden Theatre'. Old print depicting the Theatre Royal (or Royal Opera House), Covent Garden. Published in Acker...

Antique print titled 'Interior of the late Theatre Royal Drury Lane (..)'. Old print of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as it was between 1794 and 1809 showing the tiers of boxes stage left and the chandelier-lit auditorium with a small party of visitors standing in one of the boxes, as if being shown around. The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is a West End theatre and Grade I listed building in Covent Garden, London, England. The building faces Catherine Street (earlier named Bridges or Brydges Street) and backs onto Drury Lane. The building is the most recent in a line of four theatres which were built at the same location, the earliest of which dated back to 1663, making it the oldest theatre site in London still in use. According to the author Peter Thomson, for its first two centuries, Drury Lane could "reasonably have claimed to be London's leading theatre". For most of that time, it was one of a handful of patent theatres, granted monopoly rights to the production of "legitimate" drama in London (meaning spoken plays, rather than opera, dance, concerts, or plays with music). The first theatre on the site was built at the behest of Thomas Killigrew in the early 1660s, when theatres were allowed to reopen during the English Restoration. Initially known as "Theatre Royal in Bridges Street", the theatre's proprietors hired prominent actors who performed at the theatre on a regular basis, including Nell Gwyn...

Original antique engraving depicting the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, one of the world's most renowned opera houses. This finely detailed scene captures the neoclassical façade of La ...

Antique print titled 'Veduta interna della Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano'. View of the interior of St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, Rome. Published after Piranesi, circa 1820.