Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn
1738 William Hogarth print depicting travelling actresses preparing for a performance in a barn
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Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn is a 1738 engraving by William Hogarth depicting a troupe of itinerant actresses getting into costume for a mythological play inside a cramped barn, surrounded by children, animals, and theatrical props in comic disarray.[1] The print is admired for its dense, witty composition contrasting the actresses' grand mythological roles with the squalid reality of their working conditions, and it is widely regarded as one of Hogarth's finest print designs.
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- ↑ "William Hogarth."CartoonWiki.Retrieved 2026-10-02.