Scene from the pantomome of “The Forty Thieves” at Drury-lane Theatre

Hal Ludlow

1887

Engraving

Source: Illustrated London News

Compare Ludlow’s drawing of attractive show girls to the grotesqueries a pantomime at the same theater a quarter century earlier (illustration).

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