A theatre company is disbanded after a charge of blasphemy. Actors, actresses and stage painters react in shock to the news. A tragic story at Avignon. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France, translated and abridged from Moritz August von Thummel’s Reise in die mittäglichen Provinzen van Frankreich im Jahre 1785–1786, Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1821.

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