Prints: P1285

Title

Miss Kate Cutler as Catarina

Subject

Cutler, Kate

Artist

Alfred Ellis and Walery (London, England)Lascelles

Dimensions

height: 35.3cm
width: 24.8cm

Inscription/signature

Printed on recto: "MAY 17, 1899 THE SKETCH. 159 / "L'AMOUR MOUILLE," AT THE LYRIC THEATRE. / Lascelles / MISS KATE CUTLER AS CATARINA, THE EX-ORANGE-GIRL. / Once an orange-girl, Catarina is affianced to Pampinelli, the Governor of Taranto. But her old lover, Cascarino, turns up as valet to / the shipwrecked Prince of Syracuse, and Catarina becomes Mrs. Cascarino. She has been photographed by Messrs. Ellis and Walery, of / Baker Street, W."

Provenance

Presented by Mr Michael Gaunt in November 2022.

Other number

E0131

Photographic print depicting Miss Kate Cutler as Catarina, the ex-orange girl, in Louis Varney's comic opera 'L'amour Mouille', which premiered at the Lyric Theatre in 1899. Photograph by Lascelles and Messrs. Ellis and Walery, Baker Street, London. The print is a page from magazine 'The Sketch', published May 17 1899. The reverse has an article titled 'How Charles Kean played Richard the Second'.