Regency fops admiring the ballerina Maria Mercandotti, the Andalusian Venus, perform a pirouette in the Green Room at the Opera. Among the crowd are the Duke of Devonshire, the Earl of Fife and Mademoiselle Noblet bending over to show her bosom. Noble Amateurs viewing Foreign Curiosities. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written by Bernard Blackmantle, a pseudonym for Charles Molloy Westmacott.

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