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Thalia, muse of Comedy, dancing, holding mask in her right hand and staff in the left; young satyrs playing panpipes and cymbals on the right; in an oval, within rectangular borderlines; proof illustration to Sharpe's 'British Theatre'; in an oval, surrounded by laurel branches, within filled square border and rectangular outer border of a double line; finished state but before completion of border. 1804Etching with stipple
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