Image of a small sailboat emblazoned with the text "Dickson's Sketch Club" carrying a party of male and female guests, with caricature faces, with a sailor on a spar, a waiter in a tail coat pouring wine, and a boy on the mast offering a text reading "Pass One" to an owl perched on a crescent moon; a crowd of people waves goodbye in front of the "Opera House" building on the shore in the background; and a fish and sea turtle are visible in the water. Probable date approximated by cataloger based on general show history and similar printer's job numbers (see priJLC_ENT_000249); the troupe began performing around 1884. "Great Western / Pr. Eng. / & / Lith. Co. / Saint Louis"--text, bottom margin centered. "262"--text, bottom right margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 76.2 x 57.47 cm (30 x 22 5/8 in.)
Actors--Pictorial works Actresses--Pictorial works Boats and boating--Pictorial works Comedians--Pictorial works Comedies Sailboats--Pictorial works Theatrical productions Dickson’s Sketch Club 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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