Outline key to a picture of spectators at the theatre, watching Henry Irving who is shown on stage in the extreme left; view of the stalls with two tiers of boxes on the far side; the key identifies 92 people, including the Prince and Princess of Wales in the upper box nearest the stage, the Earl of Beaconsfield, Gladstone, Peel, Lord Leighton, Whistler, Trollope, Wilkie Collins, Byron, Swinburne, and Lillie Langtry.
<br>Lithograph and letterpress printed in brown ink
1878<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1878-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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