… of the British Museum, 1612984365. Image Carington Bowles after Robert Dighton the Elder, ‘The Pit Door/ La Porte du Parterre’, Met Museum, 69.584.10, 1784 Abstract More than just simple adverts for the theatres, the ‘playbill’ or ‘bill of … were not designed to last. 3 Image Legend Carington Bowles after Robert Dighton the Elder, ‘The Pit Door/ La Porte du Parterre’, Met Museum, 69.584.10, 1784 2 . Charles Beecher Hogan, The London Stage, 1660-1800: Part 5: 1776-1800, 2 vols. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1968), I, p. xx. 3 . The earliest extant …