Image of an outdoor scene with people in historical costumes running about a courtyard while flames come out of burning building, with a well in the background, and a man trying to trap another man in a wooden barrel, an old woman fighting with a man on the ground and about to hit him with a cane, and a couple embracing. Margins trimmed on local copy; probable printer supplied by cataloger based on printer of similar posters signed by Arnold; probably date based on newspaper advertisements for the company in the early 1880s. "Vic. Arnold"--text, artist's signature in stone.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 38.1 x 54.61 cm (15 x 21 1/2 in.)
Actors--Pictorial works Actresses--Pictorial works Couples--Pictorial works Fires--Pictorial works Historical dramas Theatrical productions Violence--Pictorial works Constable Hook Company Lithographs--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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