1-627-000 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Swan Theatre, London, 1596, (1893). The Swan theatre was built by Francis Langley in c1595. The last known mention of the theatre dates from 1632. After a drawing in the University Library, Utrecht, in Gaedertz, Zur Kenntniss der Alt-Englischen Buhne. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume II, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1893.