This print illustrates Charles Dibdin's comic opera "The Quaker." In Act 1, scene 10, showing the actors Parsons and Bannister singing, watched by Gillian and Floretta (played by Mrs Wrighten and Miss Walpole).
Credit: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
December 22, 1783
Etching
24.6 x 32.7 cm
17.3.888-288
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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