Image of four portraits of American actor Effie Ellsler consisting of a full-length portrait of Ellsler sitting in a throne-like chair with her feet on a pillow playing a mandolin; a full-length portrait of Ellsler in a formal dress standing in a forested area with her hands clasped together; a head-and-shoulders portrait of Ellsler; and a half-length portrait of Ellsler outdoors wearing a coat, hat, and gloves, with birds sitting on tree limbs around her; with a date sheet for an October 24, [1883], performance, presumably of the melodrama Courage by A.C. Gunter at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Single-color print. Date supplied by cataloger based on day and month on date sheet; a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, newspaper advertised Ellsler in the play "Courage" at the Fulton Opera House on October 24, 1883 (Lancaster Daily Intelligencer, 23 October 1883, page 3). "Forbes Co. Boston & N.Y."--text, bottom right margin. "J E Baker"--text, artist's signature in stone, bottom left of image. "Opera House. / Wednesday / Oct'r / 24 / One / Night / Only."--text, date sheet pasted at center of poster.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed uncolored ; overall 91.44 x 61.6 cm (36 x 24 1/4 in.)
Weston, Effie Ellsler, 1858-1942--Portraits Actors--Portraits Actresses--Pictorial works Musical instruments--Pictorial works Fulton Opera House Lithographs--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Portrait prints. (gmgpc) Theatrical posters--American. (gmgpc)
Place
Lancaster (Pa.)
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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