Image of a parlor with a man and woman fighting across a writing table while a woman holds a letter in her hand and another man enters the room through curtains; with a head-and-shoulders profile portrait of actor and dramatist John A. Stevens at top right; a printed date sheet advertising performances beginning on September 27, [1886], at the Grand Opera House in Brooklyn, New York, is pasted to the bottom of poster; the poster advertises the melodrama "A Great Wrong Righted" (also titled "A Great Wrong") written by Stevens. Date based on month and day in date sheet; the play was performed at the Grand Opera House on September 27, 1886 (Odell, Annals of the New York Stage, Vol. XIII, page 360). "Great Western Pr. Eng + Lith Co. St. Louis 475"--text, bottom right. ""Now I Know You Are Not My Son.""--text, caption, bottom centered. "Grand Opera House / Brooklyn. / One Week, / Commencing / Monday, Sept. 27 / Matinee Wednesday and Saturday."--text, date sheet attached at bottom.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 60.33 x 35.56 cm (23 3/4 x 14 in.)
Stevens, John A., 1842 or 3-1916--Portraits Actors--Portraits Actors--Pictorial works Actresses--Pictorial works Arguments--Pictorial works Melodramas Theatrical productions Violence--Pictorial works Grand Opera House 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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