Transcription
[Image of performance at Astley’s.]
SCENE FRON [sic] “THE CAMP OF SILESIA,” AT ASTLEY’S.—(THE PANDOURS’ CAVERN.)
ASTLEY’S.
OUR Illustration shows the most picturesque scene in the new drama of “The Camp of Silesia,” the production of which was noticed n our Journal of last week.
The Scene is the Cavern of Pandours (or Gipsies), by a party of whom Frederick, King of Prussia, has been made prisoner; and his Majesty is seen chained to a pillar in the cavern, with the Pandours by their fires, grouped around the captive Monarch. In the rear are the horses of the band; and two or three cavaliers are seen entering the cavern, on their return from a nocturnal expedition.
This is altogether an artistical [sic] achievement, Rembrantish in effect, to which the peculiar resources of the establishment—the horses—are valuable accessories. It is, indeed, a very spirited affair.
