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Photographs: PH1789
Title
David James
Subject
Artist
Fehrenbach, Emilian
Date
1880s
Dimensions
height (mount): 23.3cm
width (mount): 14.3cm
height: 11.4cm
width: 9.2cm
width (mount): 14.3cm
height: 11.4cm
width: 9.2cm
Other materials
Carbon print
Inscription/signature
Printed recto: ""If I go into a shop shabby, the counter skipper treats me familiar, pre-aps / 'aughty. If I wear new broad cloth, he calls me 'Sir', There you have it in a / nutshell." / OUR BOYS. / David James / FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY FEHRENBACH, 111 STRAND. W.C."
Provenance
Presented by Mr Michael Gaunt, October 2023.
Other number
E0147
Photograph depicting actor David James as Perkyn Middlewick in 'Our Boys', specially taken for "The Theatre" by Emilian Fehrenbach and published 1880s. He is depicted in half length looking slightly to the left, wearing a three-piece tweed suit, with white shirt, dark cravat, straw hat with black ribbon, and a pocket watch hanging from his waistcoat.
