Image of a hand holding four cards with vignettes of four full-length portraits of a fashion model, a bride, a maid, and a man in a suit with a monocle, captioned "Lulu (The Model)," "Juliet (The Bride)," "Euphenia (The Maid)," and "Ralph Cobbe (The Husband)"; a head of a monkey peeks over the cards at top left; the poster advertises the comedy "Three Wives to One Husband" by French author Ernest Grenet-Dancourt and adapted by James F. Milliken. Probable date based on similar 1885 newspaper advertising promoting the show: "Baldwin Theater. ... Every Evening (Except Sunday.) Saturday Matinee at 2 o'clock. First production of the Great Union-Square Success, Three Wives to One Husband." (San Francisco Chronicle, 8 March 1885, page 7) "H.W.H."--text, artist's initials, signature in stone, lower right. "Francis-Valentine & Co. S.F."--text, bottom right. "Baldwin Theatre"--text, top margin. "Every Evening & Saturday Matinee"--text, bottom margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 72.07 x 49.53 cm (28 3/8 x 19 1/2 in.)
Actors--Pictorial works Actresses--Pictorial works Animals--Pictorial works Brides--Pictorial works Comedies Couples--Pictorial works Household employees--Pictorial works Monkeys--Pictorial works Theatrical productions Baldwin Theatre Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Theatrical posters--American. (gmgpc)
Place
San Francisco (Calif.)
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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