A young woman reading a poster lettered with “Royal Italian Opera / On Thursday August 22nd / Le Prophete.” Le prophète (The Prophet) is a grand opera in five acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer. The French-language libretto was by Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps, after passages from the Essay on the Manners and Spirit of Nations by Voltaire. (http://books0977.tumblr.com/post/165712058847/the-opera-mantle-1851-augustus-leopold-egg)