'The Theatrical Steel Yards of 1750', (1751). Artist: Patrick O'Brian

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'The Theatrical Steel Yards of 1750', (1751). Players hang from scales surmounted by the motto Totus mundus agit histrionem, - All the world's a stage. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).

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