[THEATRE] Photographic portraits of Ellen Terry, Minnie Walton, Kate Bishop and Constance Loseby

A$80 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Circa 1875. Four woodburytype photographs, each carte de visite format (90 x 55 mm), mounted on a nineteenth century album page (315 x 235 mm), all strong prints with rich tonal range, the portrait of Ellen Terry (top left) with a small surface abrasion, the portrait of Minnie Walton (top right) with a hairline scratch to the right of her hat. Four portraits of mid-Victorian actresses from a contemporary English theatre memorabilia collector s album. Clockwise from top left are the great Shakespearean actress Ellen Terry; the Australian actress and singer Minnie Walton (wife of impresario Frederick Lyster); Constance Loseby, and Kate Bishop. The reverse images of three of these portraits (Walton, Loseby and Bishop) are held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG x135885), on a sheet published by the Figaro Office, St. Bride Street, London, dated to early 1875. Minnie Walton died at an early age in San Francisco. The following is an extract from an obituary which appeared in The Era , London, 27 July 1879: The deceased was a native of Sydney, New South Wales, and first came before the public as a vocalist. While fulfilling her professional engagements in America Miss Minnie Walton became the wife of Mr Frederick Lyster, who was associated with his brother, Mr W. Sauren Lyster, in the management of an English opera company. When that organisation visited California in 1868 Mr and Mrs Fred. Lyster accompanied the troupe, and October 17th of that year Mis

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