Image of an outdoor scene near a rock quarry in Ireland with a young woman trying to fight off a man attacking her with a shovel while a man swinging from a tree limb attempts to rescue her, and a man stands on a cliff above near a windmill, with a lake in the background; the poster advertisers the Irish melodrama "Peep o' Day" written by Edmund Falconer, and based on a story by Irish writer John Banim, as performed by actor Mrs. D.P. Bowers (Elizabeth Crocker Bowers) at the New Chesnut Street Theatre (also spelled New Chestnut Street Theatre) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Probable date based on 1863 newspaper advertisement for the play: “New Chesnut Street Theatre … Mrs D.P. Bowers in Peep O’ Day …” (“Amusements,” Philadelphia Inquirer, 08 July 1863, page 5) "Lith. of Chas. Hart, 99 Fulton St. N.Y."--text, lower left. "As played by / Mrs. D.P. Bowers / At the New Chesnut St. Theatre Every Evening."--text, bottom margin centered.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 38.1 x 30.48 cm (15 x 12 in.)
Actors--Pictorial works Actresses--Pictorial works Ireland--Pictorial works Melodramas Theatrical productions Rescues--Pictorial works Violence--Pictorial works Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.) Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (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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