THEATER INTERIOR
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Theater Interior

James Wells Champney (American, 1843–1903)

ca. 1873

Medium
Graphite on illustration board
Classification
Drawings
Dimensions
10.7 × 17 cm (4 3/16 × 6 11/16 in.)
Culture
USA
Museum
Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Credit line
Purchased Pauline Riggs Noyes Fund
Rights
CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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About this work

Interior of a theater, looking toward the series of boxes to the left of the stage. Rows of orchestra seats are shown, as well as a section of the pit. Several women are seated in the boxes; two men are seated in the orchestra, one standing, talking to a lady in one of the boxes.