Image of a central image of a duel between a fat Dutch man wearing clogs and a sailor, both with pistols; surrounded by three vignettes of the Dutch man being teased by two dancing girls, the Dutch man and a man wearing a bib marked "Liver Pad" sharing a bed labeled "Pat. Folding Bed" while rats scurry on the floor below; and a police officer taking the Dutch man away in handcuffs while another man holds a dancing girl who has fainted; images decorated with flowers, a twig border, and in the lower panel a musical horn and a plate of food with fork and bottle of soda; with a fragment of a Fulton Opera House date sheet pasted at bottom; the poster advertises the comedy "Wrinkles" or "1000 wrinkles" by Dutch comedian Harry Watson. "A. Windisch, Lith. 121 Sth 5th Ave. N.Y."--text, bottom left margin. "De La Harpe del 1884"--text, artist.'s signature in stone, bottom left margin. "Copyrighted by L.C. Behman 1884."--text, bottom right margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 88.9 x 66.68 cm (35 x 26 1/4 in.)
Watson, Harry--Portraits Actors--Pictorial works Caricatures and cartoons Comedians--Portraits Dueling--Pictorial works Theatrical productions Fulton Opera House Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (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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