Sujet

Scene from the "Legend of Florence", at Sadler's Wells Theatre, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Scene from the "Legend of Florence", at Sadler's Wells Theatre, [London], 1850. 'According to the legend, a sentence of divorce should have been pronounced by papal authority. But this was deemed, by those who had a voice in the theatre, to be a dangerous expedient with a British public willingly subject to the indissolubility of the marriage tie; and, accordingly, in order to get rid of the offensive husband, it was necessary to kill him - an absurd expedient, and little less than a murder...We would offer, in all kindness, a word ot advice to Mr. Waller, in the part of Rondilelli. Let him not brood so much on the sound of his own fine voice. His ear gets pleased with the deep monotones, until his speeches, if of any length, become sermons. He should throw greater variety into his declamation'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A34_099

Model release

NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

51,0Mo (4,3Mo) / 42,0cm x 30,4cm / 4960 x 3594 (300dpi)

Mots clés

female women woman people male man men marriage play playhouse entertainment guy theatre British stage drama show Victorian century gesturing Britain newspapers press actors acting divorce B&W hand gesture actor engraved engraving 19th century Thespian black & white black and white B W on stage nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News ILN newspaper Unknown Hunt James Henry Leigh Hunt James Leigh Hunt Leigh Hunt James Henry Leigh Leigh 19th-century