Photographs: PH1486

Title

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Subject

Tree, Herbert Beerbohm (Sir)

Dimensions

height: 15.5cm
width: 9cm

Inscription/signature

Printed on the front: "BEERBOHM TREE" Written on the front: "Should like a line from someone at home if you can find the time. Ted"

Provenance

Donated to the Club in November 2022 by Mr Michael Gaunt

Other number

E0131

This is photographic postcard, depicts Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Hamlet. He is shown wearing a dark hat with feathers, a dark cape and a fur trimmed tunic. He wears a silver belt with a dagger haging from it, and holds the skull of Yorick in one hand whilst gesturing to the skull with the other. Tree first performed Hamlet in Manchester in 1891, and then in London in 1892.