Image of an outdoor scene in a courtyard with a fleeing man on a horse trying to escape a fallen police officer, with onlookers and a man with a pitchfork threatening a couple in the background; the poster advertises the melodrama "Taken From Life" written by Henry Pettitt. Margins trimmed on local copy; probable date approximated by cataloger based on general show history; the play was first performed in the United States in July 1882.
Type
image
Extent
1 woodcut : color printed ; overall 59.37 x 45.09 cm (23 3/8 x 17 3/4 in.)
Actors--Pictorial works Escapes--Pictorial works Horses--Pictorial works Melodramas Theatrical productions Relief prints--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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