Mr. Barnes as Pantaloon1829 etching from Drury Lane Theatre
Mr. Huntley, as Edward the Black Prince, 1st dress1822 etching
Mr. H. Kemble as Aslan the Lionc. 1831-1834 etching
Mr. Osbaldistone [Osbaldiston] as Rollac. 1837-1840 etching
Van Amburgh, the Brute Tamer of Pompeii!1838 etching
Mr. Ducrow in the Vicissitude of a Tarc. 1820-1830 etching
Mrs. Vining as Rattlin the Reefer1820 etching
I was reading about a forthcoming Regency Toy Theatre exhibition in Birmingham and went searching around to see if any of the engravings were available online when I happened upon a set of 'penny plain' etchings in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
'The toy theatre prints in the Appleton Collection are English. By 1811 William West of London was printing sheets of stage characters for purchasers to colour, paste on cardboard and cut out, though others treaured them as individual portraits. Single prints in black ink on white paper were called "penny plains" while those with color added by the seller were the "twopence coloured."'
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serie 2 in color:
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=446663&word=
Thanks pita - I was going to come back for the colour ones in the future!
NYPL is arguably one of the best collections of old book/print illustrations on the internet. I try not to wear out my welcome - it's like shooting fish in a barrel ;)
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