Title

'Mrs Olga Nethersole in ''Sapho''', c1900. Artist: Unknown.

Caption

'Mrs Olga Nethersole in ''Sapho''', c1900. Olga Isabella Nethersole (1867-1951), English actress, theatre producer, and wartime nurse/health educator. Sapho was a 1900 play by Clyde Fitch (1865-1909), based on an 1884 French novel of the same name by Alphonse Daudet and an 1885 play by Daudet and Adolphe Belot. It was at the center of a sensational American indecency trial involving the play?s star and producer/director, Olga Nethersole. From Penrose's Pictorial Annual 1903-4, edited by William Gamble. [A. W. Penrose & Co., London, 1903-4]
The Print Collector collection

Date

1900

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C69_167

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

42,9Mb (3,0Mb) / 10,8in x 15,4in / 3248 x 4616 (300dpi)

Keywords

standing England female women woman people red country entertainment theatre English color colour smoking dress chair opera location century cigarette leather furniture wartime lady acting one person lettering actor actress publication capital letter Thespian 1900s 20th century The Print Collector Sapho Olga Nethersole watercolour portrait Unknown William Alphonse Olga AW Penrose Penrose AW A W Penrose A W Nethersole Adolphe William Gamble Gamble Pictorial Annual Adolphe Belot Belot Alphonse Daudet Daudet Alphonse Daudet William Gamble AW Penrose watercolour portrait