Harlequin Nobody, or the Babes in the Woods
"Alfred Crowquill"
1842
Engraving
The Ilustrated London News
Theatre Royal, Adelphi
Harlequin Nobody, or the Babes in the Wood was probably based on Drury Lane's Harlequin and Robin Cooke; or the Babes in the Wood (1827), in turn based on the Haymarket's October 1793 musical adaption of the old ballad (1595), which appeared in Thomas Percy's Reliques (1765). — Philip V. Allingham
Scanned by Terry-Lynn Johnson, Lakehead University