Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of Italian actor Tommaso Salvini, in an oval frame decorated with a laurel wreath, centered between four vignettes of Salvini with male and female performers in historic costumes performing in scenes from three tragedies by William Shakespeare: Macbeth, Hamlet, and Othello, and the play "Ingomar, the Barbarian" by Maria Anne Lovell, and including Salvini holding a skull in a cemetery and wearing a fur cape as a tribesman with a Greek young woman holding a spear and shield. Margins trimmed on local copy; probable date approximated by cataloger. "J.E. Baker"--text, artist's signature on stone, middle right on rolled-up scroll. "Macbeth. / Hamlet. / Othello. / Ingomar."--text, captions.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 65.72 x 33.66 cm (25 7/8 x 13 1/4 in.)
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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