2-699-277 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Covent Garden Theatre: Front in 1850', (1881). The facade of the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden, London. The second theatre, (designed by Robert Smirke) opened in 1809 after the previous building burned down. 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]