2-699-226 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Theatre, Portugal Street', (1881). The Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, originally called the Duke's Theatre, was used as a playhouse in the 17th and 18th centuries. The building shown here was constructed 1714-1728, and later became the Salopian China Warehouse. It was finally demolished in 1848. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. Westminster and the Western Suburbs, by Edward Walford, Vol. III. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, 1881]