Pidgeon Hole. A Convent Garden Contrivance to Coop up the Gods, February 20, 1811, Hand-colored etching, Sheet: 9 5/8 x 13 3/4 in. (24.5 x 34.9 cm), Prints, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Rowlandson here alludes to the discomfort working-class audiences endured at the new Theatre Royal Covent Garden. After fire destroyed the old building in 1808, Robert Smirke designed an auditorium able to accommodate more than three thousand people and replaced many inexpensive seats with private boxes
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Pidgeon Hole, Convent Garden Contrivance, Coop up, Gods, February 20, 1811, Hand-colored etching, Sheet, 9 5/8 x 13 3/4, 24.5 34.9 cm, Prints, Thomas Rowlandson, British, London, 1757–1827, Rowlandson, alludes, discomfort working-class audiences, endured, new Theatre, Royal, Covent, Garden, fire destroyed, old building, 1808, Robert Smirke, designed, auditorium able, accommodate, three thousand, people, replaced, inexpensive seats, private boxes
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