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H Beard Print Collection

Magazine Page
21st April 1911 (published)
Artist/Maker
The Illustrated London News (publisher)
Place of origin
London (published)

Page from an illustrated review entitled 'The Autumn Opera Season at Covent Garden'. The page features portraits of the leading singers at Covent Garden and an illustration for the forthcoming 'Wagner Season'. The singers (from top left ot right) are Herr Otto Wolf, Mr. Alex D'Arnais, Herr Heinrich Hensel as Siegfried, Madame Louise Petzl-Perard as Elizabeth in Tannhäuser, Madame Annie Gura-Hummel, Madame Ella Gmeiner. Various articles and five images of the Chinese army are printed on the reverse.


Object details

Categories
Entertainment & Leisure
Prints
Object type
Magazine page
TitleH Beard Print Collection (named collection)
Materials and techniques
print, ink on paper
Paper
Printing Ink
Print-Making
Photography
Brief description
Page from an illustrated review entitled 'The Autumn Opera Season at Covent Garden'. The page features portraits of the leading singers at Covent Garden and an illustration for the forthcoming 'Wagner Season'. Published on 11th October 1911, Harry Beard Collection.
Physical description
Page from an illustrated review entitled 'The Opening of the Royal Opera Season'.
Dimensions
  • Print size height: 38.2cm
  • Print size width: 23.8cm
Subjects depicted
Wolf, Otto (Herr)
D'Arnais, Alex (Mr)
Hensel, Heinrich (Herr)
Petzl-Perard, Louise (Madame)
Gura-Hummel, Annie (Madame)
Gmeiner, Ella (Madame)
Literary references
  • The Ring of the Nibelungs
  • Ring des Nibelungen
  • Das Rheingold
  • The Rhinegold
  • Die Walküre
  • The Valkyrie
  • Siegfried
  • Götterdämmerung
  • The Twilight of the Gods
  • Tannhäuser
Summary
Page from an illustrated review entitled 'The Autumn Opera Season at Covent Garden'. The page features portraits of the leading singers at Covent Garden and an illustration for the forthcoming 'Wagner Season'. The singers (from top left ot right) are Herr Otto Wolf, Mr. Alex D'Arnais, Herr Heinrich Hensel as Siegfried, Madame Louise Petzl-Perard as Elizabeth in Tannhäuser, Madame Annie Gura-Hummel, Madame Ella Gmeiner. Various articles and five images of the Chinese army are printed on the reverse.
Other number
F.129-26 - H Beard collection numbering
Collection
Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number
S.4844-2009

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Record createdOctober 9, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1138010/h-beard-print-collection-magazine-page-the-illustrated-london/
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