Image of an outdoor scene in a courtyard with a woman on a horse charging through a gate to stop a firing squad of French soldiers with rifles and bayonets who are preparing to shoot a prisoner who stands next to a guillotine in the back of the courtyard; the poster advertises the English melodrama "Hands Across the Sea" by Henry Pettitt. Probable date based on year the play first toured in the United States (Odell, Annals of the New York Stage, Vol. XIV, page 267). "Central / Litho & Eng Co / NY / No 1144"--text, bottom left. ""Shoot me now"--text, caption, bottom center. "Stop! Stop! The President's Reprieve!""--text, caption, bottom right.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 71.44 x 107.32 cm (28 1/8 x 42 1/4 in.)
Pettitt, Henry, 1848-1893. Hands across the sea Executions--Pictorial works Melodramas Rescues--Pictorial works Soldiers--Pictorial works Theatrical productions Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Theatrical posters--American. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Entertainment Large Size Music and Theater The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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