Monsr. Marie Jean Augustin Vestris Jr. in the favorite ballet by Louis Simonet called Les Amans Surpris, King’s Theatre, 1780. Vestris, 1760-1842, son of Gaetan Vestris, ballet master at the Paris Opera, appeared in London many times from 1780 to the 1790s. Copperplate engraving by J. Thornthwaite after an illustration by James Roberts from Bell’s British Theatre, Consisting of the most esteemed English Plays, John Bell, London, 1781.

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