The Stage and Its Stars, Past and Present: A Gallery of Dramatic Illustration and Critcal Biographies of Distinguished
English and American Actors from the Time of Shakespeare till to-day. Howard Paul and George Gebbie, editors
Published by Gebbie and Co., Philadelphia
—1889—
Original photogravure plates over 125 years old — NOT modern reproductions!
Sheet size: approx. 11 3/4 x 17 inches •
Image size: varies, but most are about 7 x 9.25 inches.
Please click on the thumbnails below for an enlarged view. Please note that the entire sheet is too large to scan, thus only the scannable portion is shown but the margins are full, as issued. All plates have at least some foxing.
Wilson Barrett as Claudian
Some foxing in margins,
well outside image area.
$35
John Philip Kemble as Cato CATO - ACT V - SCENE I
Some foxing in margins
$35
Robert Downing as Marc Antony JULIUS CAESAR - ACT III - SCENE II
Some foxing in margins,
well outside image area.
$35
James E. Murdoch
as The Stranger [Count Waldbourg]
Some foxing in margins,
well outside image area.
$35
W.J. Florence
as Sir Lucius O'Trigger in "The Rivals"
Some foxing in margins,
well outside image area.
$35
Nat C. Goodwin
as Modus in "The Hunchback"
Some foxing in margins,
well outside image area.
$35
Julia Marlow
as Julia in "The Hunchback"
Some foxing in margins,
well outside image area.
$40
Mrs. Agnes Booth
as Mrs. Ralston in "Jim the Penman"
Some foxing in margins as well as light foxing within image
Adelina Patti
Some foxing in margins,
well outside image area.
$30
Mr. William Warren
as Herr Weigel in the Comedy of "My Son"
Some foxing in margins
$30
Clara Morris as Miss Multon
Some foxing in margins,
well outside image area.
$35
James Lewis and Mrs. G.H. Gilbert as Professor and Mrs. Zantippi Babbit
Some foxing in margins,
well outside image area.
$30
Miss Margaret Mather as Juliana IN THE HONEYMOON, ACT I, SCENE II
Some foxing in margins,
well outside image area.
Lawrence Barrett as
Count Lanciotto FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, ACT III, SCENE II
Some foxing in margins as well as light foxing within image
$20
Lucille Western
as Lucretia Borga ACT II, SCENE III
Some foxing in margins,
well outside image area.
$30
Charles Wyndham
as David Garrick
Some foxing in margins,
outside image area.
$30
Denman Thompson
as Joshua Whitcomb in "The Old Homestead"
Some foxing in margins,
well outside image area.
$30
Mr. Squire Bancroft as Triplet in "Masks and Faces"
Some foxing in margins,
well outside image area.
$35
E.L. Davenport
as Sir Giles Overreach "A New Way to Pay Old Debts"
ACT IV, SCENE II
Some foxing in margins,
well outside image area.
$35
Wm. E. Sheridan as Louis XI ACT I, SCENE II
Some foxing in margins,
well outside image area.
$35
James W. Wallack
Some foxing in margins,
well outside image area.
$35
J. Lester Wallace as Benedick
Some foxing in margins,
well outside image area.
$30
Drop Curtain Presented by F. Fitger for The Thalia Theatre, Hamburg, 1883.
Some foxing in margins,
well outside image area.
$35
Phaedre
Foxed
$20
Charlotte S. Cushman
as Meg Merrilies "Guy Mannering" ACT II, SCENE IV
ETCHING BY J.R. RICE
Light foxing
in margins
$40
Mary Stuart ACT III, SCENE VI
Scene—The Park of Fotheringay Castle
Foxing in margins
$35
John Brougham
as Sir Lucius O'Trigger IN SHERIDAN'S "RIVALS",
ACT V, SCENE III