Thespian Collection (page 5)

Portrait of an Actor, c1820s. Creator: Utagawa Kunimune
Portrait of an Actor, c1820s

Scene from the Noh Play Nue, 1898. Creator: Tsukioka Kogyo
Scene from the Noh Play Nue, 1898. From Sketches of Noh Drama

Celebration of the 100th performance of Ichikawa Danjuro (image 2 of 2), 1898. Creator: Toyohara Kunichika
Celebration of the 100th performance of Ichikawa Danjuro (image 2 of 2), 1898. Alternate Title: Ichikawa Danjuro Engeki Hyakuban

Celebration of the 100th performance of Ichikawa Danjuro (image 1 of 2), 1898. Creator: Toyohara Kunichika
Celebration of the 100th performance of Ichikawa Danjuro (image 1 of 2), 1898. Alternate Title: Ichikawa Danjuro Engeki Hyakuban

The Actor Ichimura Kakitsu IV in a Female Role, between circa 1863 and circa 1868. Creator: Toyohara Kunichika
The Actor Ichimura Kakitsu IV in a Female Role, between circa 1863 and circa 1868

Portrait of Danjuro IX as Benkei in the Play Kanjincho, 1869. Creator: Toyohara Kunichika
Portrait of Danjuro IX as Benkei in the Play Kanjincho, 1869

Scene froma Kabuki play, Mid-late 1780s. Creator: Torii Kiyonaga
Scene froma Kabuki play, Mid-late 1780s. Actors Sawamura Sojuro III as Nuregami Chogoro, Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Hanaregoma Chokichi, Segawa Kikunojo III as Azuma

Lady Ejima and the Actor Ikushima Shingoro, 1886. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Lady Ejima and the Actor Ikushima Shingoro, 1886. From A New Selection of Eastern Brocade Pictures

Actor Bando Mitsugoro I (image 2 of 2), 1770s-mid 1780s. Creator: Shunsho
Actor Bando Mitsugoro I (image 2 of 2), 1770s-mid 1780s

A Memorial Portrait of Onoe Kikugoro IV, 1860. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
A Memorial Portrait of Onoe Kikugoro IV, 1860

Segawa Kikunojo III in a Female Role, between circa 1790 and circa 1795. Creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei
Segawa Kikunojo III in a Female Role, between circa 1790 and circa 1795

Bust Portrait of Three Actors Ichikawa Komazo II, Sakata Hangoro III, Nakayama Fukasaburo I, c1794

Gabriel Ravel as Babilas, 1855-1859. Creator: Alfred Jacob Miller
Gabriel Ravel as Babilas, 1855-1859

To from the series Saisho nana iroha, 1856. Creator: Utagawa Kunisada
To from the series Saisho nana iroha, 1856. Actors Ichikawa Ebizo V as Toshibei and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Sukune Taro

Actor in the Role of Asada Itcho, between circa 1843 and circa 1855. Creator: Utagawa Kuniteru
Actor in the Role of Asada Itcho, between circa 1843 and circa 1855. Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Tsukushi Gonroku, Bando Shuka as Yakko no Koman

Andromaque, 1851. Creator: Honore Daumier
Andromaque, 1851. "J'ai vu trancher les jours de ma famille entiere" "Et mon epoux traine sur la poussiere!". "I saw the lives of my entire family cut short"

Manzai: Comic Actor, Mid-19th century. Creator: Unknown
Manzai: Comic Actor, Mid-19th century

Untitled (Cesare [Conrad Veidt] Carrying Jane [Lil Dagover] across Rooftops), 1919. Creator: Anon
Untitled (Cesare [Conrad Veidt] Carrying Jane [Lil Dagover] across Rooftops), 1919

A Mashed Actor Playing the Guitar, 1616. Creator: Jacques Callot
A Mashed Actor Playing the Guitar, 1616. From Les Gobbi, plate 20

Répétition d'une pièce dramatique, 1858. Creator: Honore Daumier
Repetition d'une piece dramatique, 1858. - Non, barbare!...la mort seule pourra me separer de mon enfant!'. Rehearsal of a play

Les reines des théâtres du boulevard... 1858. Creator: Honore Daumier
Les reines des theatres du boulevard... 1858. Les reines des theatres du boulevard sommees d'avoir a se rendre dans le plus bref delai au theatre francais

Le Régisseur. - Voyons, mademoiselle, faites sonner les RRR... 1856. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le Regisseur. - Voyons, mademoiselle, faites sonner les RRR... 1856. Le Regisseur - Voyons, mademoiselle, faites sonner les RRR...vibrrrez...vibrrrez...les bons traditions se perdent...de mon temps

Sur la scène/Dans les coulisses, 1853. Creator: Honore Daumier
Sur la scene/Dans les coulisses, 1853. On Stage/Behind the Scenes. (In the wings, an actor, dressed as a Roman, exchanges something with another man (the theatre manager?). From Croquis Parisiens

Romain s'apprêtant à transpercer sa propre soeur... 1852. Creator: Honore Daumier
Romain s'appretant a transpercer sa propre soeur... 1852. Romain s'appretant a transpercer sa propre soeur pour cause de rimes inconvenantes

L'Acteur des Funambules, 1842. Creator: Honore Daumier
L'Acteur des Funambules, 1842. The tightrope actor. En v'la un temps qui vous rend passionne! et tout a l'heure va falloir etre brulant d'amour en turc et dire - "o Zulema

Le Terrible Régisseur, 1864. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le Terrible Regisseur, 1864. The scary stage manager. - Comment vous me dites que vous avez manque la repetition au jour d'hui parceque vous avez pose des sangsues a votre mere?

Le Théâtre français réduit...à se servir... 1858. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le Theatre francais reduit...a se servir... 1858. Le Theatre francais reduit, par suite de la disette des reines de tragedies, a se servir d'une reine-mannequin

De l'utilité d'une famille pour une cantatrice, 1857. Creator: Honore Daumier
De l'utilite d'une famille pour une cantatrice, 1857. On the usefulness of a family to a singer. (The singer's relations hold bouquets ready to throw on stage)

La Princesse. Voyons, être féroce, finis-en... 1857. Creator: Honore Daumier
La Princesse. Voyons, etre feroce, finis-en... 1857. La Princesse - Voyons, etre feroce, finis-en donc vite avec ton monologue...tu me fais rester morte pendant une heure...et tu sais qu'on

Un rappel de chanteuse... 1857. Creator: Honore Daumier
Un rappel de chanteuse... 1857. Un rappel de chanteuse...scene de haute comedie. (Encore of a (female) singer...scene of high comedy/theatre). From Croquis dramatiques, no. 9

La mère de la chanteuse, 1856. Creator: Honore Daumier
La mere de la chanteuse, 1856. - Et dire que ce grigou de directeur rechigne a donner soixante mille francs par an a un ange qui chante comme ca!'

Agamemnon se faisant couronner à huis-clos, 1856. Creator: Honore Daumier
Agamemnon se faisant couronner a huis-clos, 1856. - Ceremonie dont la simplicite n'exclut point une certaine majeste, Agamemnon being crowned behind closed doors

L'Acteur...on voit bien qu'il fait chaud... 1856. Creator: Honore Daumier
L'Acteur...on voit bien qu'il fait chaud... 1856. L'Acteur...- On voit bien qu'il fait chaud...trois spectateurs dans la salle...faut-il commencer

Drury-Lane Theatre - Engaging for the Pantomime - drawn by M'Connell, 1858. Creator: McConnell
Drury-Lane Theatre - Engaging for the Pantomime - drawn by M'Connell, 1858....a curious Scene at the stage-door...every available place was occupied round about the theatre by a crowd of persons

Danses de la haute école - Poses d'une école... 1853. Creator: Honore Daumier
Danses de la haute ecole - Poses d'une ecole... 1853. Danses de la haute ecole. Poses d'une ecole encore plus elevee. (High school dances. Poses from an even higher school)

Scene from "Macbeth", at the Princess Theatre, 1858. Creator: Smyth
Scene from "Macbeth", at the Princess Theatre, 1858. London stage production, showing...the Witch-Cauldron Scene...in the superb revival of "Macbeth

Farce dramatique... 1841. Creator: Honore Daumier
Farce dramatique... 1841. Doucement! Doucement!...ne levez pas le rideau, je ne joue pas... - (Le Directeur accourant effraye)

Madame Celeste as the Arab Boy, in "The French Spy", at the Standard Theatre, 1858. Creator: Smyth
Madame Celeste as the Arab Boy, in "The French Spy", at the Standard Theatre, 1858. London stage production. Celeste, a pantomimist of the highest mark, plays the part of...a dumb girl

Sybil Thorndike as Saint Joan, 1924. Artist: William Kerridge Haselden
Sybil Thorndike as Saint Joan, 1924. English actress Thorndike (1882-1976) took the heroine's role in the first London production of George Bernard Shaw's play Saint Joan which was first

Actors and Ballet-Girls of the Mikado's court; A European Sojourn in Japan, 1875. Creator: Unknown
Actors and Ballet-Girls of the Mikado's court; A European Sojourn in Japan, 1875. From, Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London]

Mr. Edwin James, Q.C. in Garibaldi's camp - from a sketch by our special artist, 1860. Creator: Unknown
Mr. Edwin James, Q.C. in Garibaldi's camp - from a sketch by our special artist, 1860. Portrait of...the honourable and learned member for Marylebone as he then appeared in his half-military

Scene from Mr. Brougham's comedy of "Romance and Reality", at the Hammersmith Theatre, 1860. London stage production. Act IV

Interior of the Soldiers Theatre at Mourmelon-le-Grand, Chalons Camp... 1860. Creator: Unknown
Interior of the Soldiers Theatre at Mourmelon-le-Grand, Chalons Camp, [France] - from a drawing by M. Beauce, 1860. This theatre, built of wood, and in the most unpretending style

Plate 6 for Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield, 1776. Creator: Daniel Berger
Plate 6 for Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield, 1776

Last scene of "The Enchanted Isle" at Drury Lane Theatre, 1860. Creator: Unknown
Last scene of "The Enchanted Isle" at Drury Lane Theatre, 1860. London stage performance...for the benefit of the widow and children of the late Mr. Robert B. Brough...[showing] Mr

Antoine Ravel as Chevalier Grinaldo, 1855-1859. Creator: Alfred Jacob Miller
Antoine Ravel as Chevalier Grinaldo, 1855-1859

Jerome, 1855-1859. Creator: Alfred Jacob Miller
Jerome, 1855-1859

Memorial portrait of Osaka Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV, c1852. Creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Memorial portrait of Osaka Actor Nakamura Utaemon IV, c1852. Attributed to Utagawa Kuniyoshi

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