# Theater Interior

- By: James Wells Champney (American, 1843–1903)
- Date: ca. 1873
- Medium: Graphite on illustration board
- Classification: Drawings
- Dimensions: 10.7 × 17 cm (4 3/16 × 6 11/16 in.)
- Culture: USA
- Credit line: Purchased Pauline Riggs Noyes Fund
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/108888)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/a788eaee224aa555e2ea571ac096929d.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.