Opera House (Auckland) :Potter-Bellew season. Lessees & Managers Messrs Williamson & Musgrove / Wil R Barnes, designer. [Programme cover. 1897].

Opera House (Auckland) :Potter-Bellew season. Lessees & Managers Messrs Williamson & Musgrove / Wil R Barnes, designer. [Programme cover. 1897].
Free
Date
1897
By
New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing Works; Falk, active 1893; Barnes, William Rodney, 1851-1939
Reference
Eph-B-OPERA-1897-01-cover
Description

Shows inset head-and-shoulder portraits of Mrs Brown Potter and Mr Kyrle Bellew, who played Rosalind and Orlando in "As you like it", in mid-January 1897. The portraits are from photographs by Falk. Around are scenes of stars in the shy and the balcony scene from "Romeo and Juliet". Down the sides of the cover are advertisements for Sterling Stainless Hosiery (on sale at Staerker and Fischer), and Read Brothers, jewellers.

Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Star and Graphic Print, Shortland Street, Auckland

Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Physical Description: Letterpress and lithgraph, on cover 281 x 218 mm.

Additional description

Alternative form available: File print available in Ephemera Room.

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
Part of
[Theatre programmes for opera performances in New Zealand. 1890s].
Format
1 colour photo-mechanical print(s), Ephemera, Letterpress works, Photolithographs, Theatre programmes, Portraits, Letterpress and lithgraph, on cover 281 x 218 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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