The Overflowing of the Pitt by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm

Engraving of a crowded theatre stairway where men and women in 18th-century dress tumble down amid candle sconces.

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An engraved print titled The Overflowing of the Pitt, created after an original drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm and printed for S. Sledge in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. It shows a cramped theatre stairway where well-dressed men and women tumble over one another while a man in a wig gestures from above, with candle sconces lighting the scene. The caption quotes Pope's The Rape of the Lock and the sheet is dated 25 June 1771 in its imprint.

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1991

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Public domain