Kate Santley as Rowena in The Merry Duchess.
Print
1883 (made)
1883 (made)
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This image was originally produced from a photograph by The Bijou Photo Studios which operated at 204 Regent Street from 1883 until 1885. Its proprietor William Morris Crouch (1846-1907) worked as a portrait painter in Devon and in Liverpool before moving to London and taking over James Henderson's long-established photographic studio in Regent Street and renaming it the Bijou Photo Studio. In 1883 a series of 52 so-called Bijou Portraits printed by Charles Goodall & Son Ltd. was issued weekly, from 6 January to 29 December 1883, with facsimile signatures and quotations relating to the subject, as a supplement to the Saturday weekly London Society Magazine. The images were mostly of theatrical personalities but included other personalities including a jockey, royalty, and authors.
Object details
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| Title | Kate Santley as Rowena in The Merry Duchess. |
| Materials and techniques | Ink on board and paper |
| Brief description | Portrait of the actress and theatre manager Kate Santley (1837-1923) as Rowena in the comic opera The Merry Duchess by George R. Sims with music by Frederic Clay, Royalty Theatre, 23 April 1883. Bijou Portrait no.30 by Frank Feller, printed as a supplement to London Society Magazine, 28 July 1883 |
| Physical description | Full length coloured image of Kate Santley as she appeared in the role of Rowena in The Merry Duchess. She wears a headdress of playing cards, a pale orange dress with red cord lattice decoration on the bodice and skirt, with playing cards on the skirt, and red stockings. She wears elbow-length white gloves and holds castanets in each hand. The print is headed: 'Supplement to 'Society', July 28, 1883, has the quotation from the character Rowena: 'I have a sympathetic heart' below the portrait, a facsimile signature of Kate Santley, lower right, and 'Society' Bijou Portraits, No.30 - Miss Kate Santley', lower left. |
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| Credit line | Gabrielle Enthoven Collection |
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| Summary | This image was originally produced from a photograph by The Bijou Photo Studios which operated at 204 Regent Street from 1883 until 1885. Its proprietor William Morris Crouch (1846-1907) worked as a portrait painter in Devon and in Liverpool before moving to London and taking over James Henderson's long-established photographic studio in Regent Street and renaming it the Bijou Photo Studio. In 1883 a series of 52 so-called Bijou Portraits printed by Charles Goodall & Son Ltd. was issued weekly, from 6 January to 29 December 1883, with facsimile signatures and quotations relating to the subject, as a supplement to the Saturday weekly London Society Magazine. The images were mostly of theatrical personalities but included other personalities including a jockey, royalty, and authors. |
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| Accession number | S.758-2014 |
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| Record created | November 12, 2014 |
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