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  • Abbey Theatre tray cloth

    Alternative Title
    Sold by the Irish players at $1.00 towards a building to save Sir Hugh Lane's great gift of pictures to Ireland April 1913 [picture]
    Subject
    Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet (Shaw, Bernard), Theaters, Abbey Theatre Players (Dublin, Ireland), Theater, Irish Players, Abbey Theatre Company, Actors, Abbey Theatre, Fund raising, and Lane, Hugh Percy, Sir, 1875-1915
    Contributor
    Yeats, Jack B. (Jack Butler), 1871-1957 and Abbey Theatre
    Publisher
    Abbey Theatre
    Language
    eng
    Date created
    1913
    Rights Statement
    Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
    Resource Type
    Physical Object
    Identifier
    Call Number: PN2602 D82A1S65
    Extent
    1 tray cloth ; 46 x 49 cm
    Geographic Coverage
    Ireland
    Coordinates
    53, -8
    Additional Physical Characteristics
    Enclosed in a wooden frame with glass. Printed on linen textile in black and white. Reproductions of signatures of W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory. Shows full cast and features larger sketches of 8, all but one with names.
    Physical Repository
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection
    19th Century Manuscripts Collection
    Provenance
    Gift of Ann Saddlemyer.
    Provider
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre
    black-and-white prints (prints on paper), prints (visual works), and tray cloths
    Date Digitized
    2010
    Transcript
    Tray Cloth sold by the Abbey Theatre in support of the Hugh Lane fund, showing the 1913 cast of Bernard Shaw's The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet.When the censor prohibited its production in England, the premiere performance was given by the Abbey Theatre in 1909,...
    Technical Note
    Canon 30D zoom lens 17-40mm by KM/CDW. Metadata by GF and KD.