Theatrical backdrop posters & prints

Design for the stage curtain for a performance of 'Hamlet' at the Comedie Francaise, 1884 French School

Alice in Wonderland Anonymous

Scene from the New Extravaganza of the Drama at Home, at the Haymarket Theatre Anonymous

Act I, scenes VII and VIII: Baccus' Temple Giacomo Torelli

Preparing Scenery in a Theatre Italian School

Julius Caesar Anonymous

Elsinor Castle, design for theatrical scenery William Telbin

Scene from the Favourite of Fortune at the Haymarket Theatre London UK 1866 Anonymous

Herbert Beerbohm Tree in Williams Shakespeare's Macbeth at His Majesty's Theatre Anonymous

Act III, scenes XI and XIII: garden in the form of a pavillion Giacomo Torelli

Set design for a tragic scene, 1545 Sebastiano Serlio

Illustration from Le Theatre of Monsieur Perier in Debussy's "Pelleas et Melisande" Anonymous

Decor for 'Peer Gynt' by Henrik Ibsen, 1912 Nicholas Roerich

Scene from the City Madam, at Sadler's Wells Theatre Anonymous

There Take It Prince and If My Form Lie There Then I Am Yours Anonymous

Set design for 'Athalie' by Jean Racine performed at the Comedie Francaise, 28th April 1892 Philippe Marie Chaperon

Stage design for the tragedy Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller, 1824 Anonymous

Stage set for 'Les Troyens' by Hector Berlioz 1863 Philippe Marie Chaperon

Scene from the New Play of Fiesco, at Drury Lane Theatre Anonymous

Miss Wyndham As Olinska in the Burlesque of Mazeppa at the Olympic Theatre Anonymous

The Viennese Children, at Her Majesty's Theatre. Anonymous

Othello Anonymous

Jourdains Room. Stage design for the theatre play A Bourgeois as a Nobleman by J.-B. Moliere, 1911 Nikolai Nikolayevich Sapunov

Scene from La Muta Di Portici, at Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, London Anonymous

Scenery design for The Sleeping Princess Leon Bakst

Stage design for the ballet The Little Humpbacked Horse by C. Pugni, 1939 Anonymous

Scene from the Extravaganza of the Fair Star, at the Princess' Theatre. Anonymous

Illustration from Le Theatre of Mademoiselle Garden as Melisande in Debussy's "Pelleas et Melisande" Anonymous

Curtain design for the Theatre in Krakow Anonymous

Scene from a play Charpentier

Panel of Chinese wallpaper depicting a theatrical performance unknown

Stage design for The Bride of Dionysus Charles Ricketts

The first dramatic theatre group in Warsaw, 1866 Unknown

Circus Performers English Photographer

Curtain Design for the 'Free Theatre' in Moscow, 1913 Konstantin Andreevic Somov

Scene from Othello at the Princess Theatre the Town and Harbour of Cyprus Anonymous