BIB_ID
407697
Accession number
MA 13807
Creator
Walker, Frederick, 1840-1875.
Published
[London] : [publisher not identified], [1871]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 print : wood engraving ; image: 189 x 112 mm ; sheet: 248 x 151 mm
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Title from item.
A small copy of Walker's poster designed to advertise Wilkie Collins's stage adaptation of his novel, "The Woman in White," which played at the Olympic Theatre in London from 1871-1872.
Unsigned; the block for the original poster after Walker's "life size" design was cut by William Harcourt Hooper.
A small copy of Walker's poster designed to advertise Wilkie Collins's stage adaptation of his novel, "The Woman in White," which played at the Olympic Theatre in London from 1871-1872.
Unsigned; the block for the original poster after Walker's "life size" design was cut by William Harcourt Hooper.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Represents the character Anne Catherick (i.e. "the Woman in White") swathed in a white cloak, viewed from the back as she flings open a church door to step out into a graveyard at night..
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