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East Lynne
S.C. Allen and Company Ltd. - Enlarge image
East Lynne
- Object:
Poster
- Place of origin:
London, England (printed)
- Date:
1895-1905 (printed)
- Artist/Maker:
S.C. Allen and Company Ltd. (printers (people))
- Materials and Techniques:
Colour lithograph
- Credit Line:
Given by Sir Barry Jackson
- Museum number:
E.166-1935
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case Y, shelf 60, box C
A poster advertising a touring production of about 1900 of the play East Lynne. The play was an adaptation of Mrs Henry Wood's immensely popular novel of the same name published in 1861. The poster shows the heroine of the story, Isabel Vane, a devoted wife and mother, who had allowed herself to be seduced by a man who proved unworthy of her. Penniless and abandoned - and unrecognisably disfigured through a railway accident - she takes a job as a governess to her own children. This scene shows her little boy holding out his arms at the moment of his death, and failing to recognise his own mother by the bedside.
