A printed playbill, approx. 42 x 33 cm., printed in two columns, one section printed in red, central vertical crease where folded, some light browning to central fold due to old brown paper repairs to verso, party affecting text, else very good. W. T. Moncrieffs Zoroaster was an extravaganza set in Egypt, with music by T. Cooke. However, the play provided a vehicle for the main offering that evening: theEidophusicon, or Image of Nature, shewing The Beauties of Nature and Wonders of Art . in an unprecedented extent of 482 Feet. This enormous painting, by Clarkson Stanfield and assistants, showed in a continuous and unrolling format a succession of scenes: The Great Desert with Arabs Tent; Caravan of Merchants crossing the Desert; The Sphynx & Pyramids; Ruins of the Great Temple of Apollinopolis Magna; Colossus of Rhodes; The Bay of Naples; Mount Vesuvius; the Grand Falls of Tivoli. The Eidophusicon provided an interlude in the play, the remaining scenery for which was painted in th