1-191-901 - © London Museum/Heritage-Images

Interior of the Covent Garden Theatre, London, 1808. A full house at the theatre. On the stage is an orchestra, and in front of them a choir. The stalls, boxes and the gods are crammed with people. People are also standing in the pit at the bottom. Not everyone is concentrating on the performance. Many of the people are watching each other, or whispering to their neighbour. One man in the second level up from the bottom on the right appears to have fallen asleep.