$660
Extensive Theater-Related Ephemera Collection, approximately seventy matted illustrations related to actors, characters, and plays, including hand-colored engravings, images by Cruikshank, and frontispieces removed from 19th century editions of Shakespeare's plays; several portraits of Talma in character, some hand-colored; assorted portraits of Kemble and Liston; Hamlet illustrations; a collection of 20th century playbills; prints removed from books and magazines and other theater memorabilia; a group of 19th century Boston-area theater notices and broadsides; some London broadsides; and other miscellaneous paper related to the theater. The Boston Museum broadside for HMS Pinafore is 14 1/4 x 5 7/8 inches.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18
