A young writer reading his play to a group of chattering veteran actors. Bernard Blackmantle reading his Play in the Green Room of the Covent Garden Theatre. 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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