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Monsr. Martin encountering the lion [II] [print].

Accession number
PML 143905.101
Published
London : Pub by J.L. Marks. 6 Worship Street Finsbury, [1832?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Forms part of a bound album containing a collection of prints published by J.L. Marks and the later firm of S. Marks and Sons (see "John Lewis Marks album," PML 143905).
Description
1 print : hand colored etching ; sheet: 247 x 200 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Full length portrait of performer and famed lion tamer Henri Martin as Sadhusing in the play by Alfred Bunn entitled "Hyder Ali, or the Lions of Mysore", which opened in the Drury Lane Theatre in 1831; he is shown facing 3/4 to the left, standing over a prostrate lion with a dagger in his raised hand.
Classification
Department