Printed Ephemera — 1831-1833
Mr Duruset as Selim
Uncoloured theatrical souvenir plate engraved with portrait of the actor Mr Duruset on horseback in the role of Selim. Such sheets would have been sold plain for colouring and tinselling at home.
In the first half of the nineteenth century London theatres needed to be licenced. Circuses and equestrian drama were a way around the legislation. Melodramas and equestrian combats were popular features of these illegitimate theatres.
- Category:
- Printed Ephemera
- Object ID:
- 99.132/469
- Object name:
- Mr Duruset as Selim
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- Hodgson, Orlando
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- Related places:
10 Cloth Fair, West Smithfield, London [City of London], City of London
- Production date:
- 1831-1833
- Material:
paper, ink
- Measurements/duration:
- H 230 mm, W 184 mm
- Part of:
- —
- On display:
- —
- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
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- Creative commons usage:
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