Pictorial Annual Gallery

Mrs Olga Nethersole in Sapho, c1900

Mrs Olga Nethersole in Sapho, c1900. Olga Isabella Nethersole (1867-1951), English actress, theatre producer, and wartime nurse/health educator. Sapho was a 1900 play by Clyde Fitch (1865-1909), based on an 1884 French novel of the same name by Alphonse Daudet and an 1885 play by Daudet and Adolphe Belot. It was at the center of a sensational American indecency trial involving the play?s star and producer/director, Olga Nethersole. From Penrose's Pictorial Annual 1903-4, edited by William Gamble. [A. W. Penrose & Co., London, 1903-4]

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Statuary Gallery, Chatsworth House, c1903. Artist: Pawson & Brailsford

Statuary Gallery, Chatsworth House, c1903. The first house at Chatsworth near Bakewell in Derbyshire was built by Bess of Hardwick (c1527-1608) and her second husband Sir William Cavendish (1505-1557). Building began in 1552, and many additions and alterations were made over the years by its subsequent occupants. Chatsworth House has been the seat of the Dukes of Devonshire since 1687. From Penrose's Pictorial Annual 1903-4, edited by William Gamble. [A. W. Penrose & Co., London, 1903-4]

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Warwick Castle, c1903. Artist: Harold Baker Ltd

Warwick Castle, c1903. Situated at a crossing of the River Avon, Warwick was first fortified in c915. William I ordered the castle to be extended in 1086. The present castle, one of the most intact medieval fortifications in Britain, dates predominantly from the 14th and 15th centuries. From Penrose's Pictorial Annual 1903-4, edited by William Gamble. [A. W. Penrose & Co., London, 1903-4]

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