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Photographs: PH1794
Title
Mary Anderson and Mrs Stirling
Subject
Anderson, Mary
Stirling, Fanny (Mary Ann)
Stirling, Fanny (Mary Ann)
Character
Nurse : Romeo and Juliet
Juliet : Romeo and Juliet
Juliet : Romeo and Juliet
Artist
W.& D. DowneyCassell & Company Ltd (London, England)
Date
1890
Dimensions
height (mount): 24.6cm
width (mount): 18cm
height: 13.8cm
width: 9.3cm
width (mount): 18cm
height: 13.8cm
width: 9.3cm
Inscription/signature
Printed recto: "W. & D. DOWNEY, / MARY ANDERSON AND MRS. STIRLING. / 57 & 61, Ebury Street, London."
Inscribed verso: "Mrs. Stirling - English / 1813-95 / Mary Anderson - USA / 1859-1940"
Provenance
Presented by Mr Michael Gaunt, October 2023.
Other number
E0147
Photograph depicting Mrs Fanny Stirling as the Nurse and Mary Anderson as Juliet in 'Romeo and Juliet', taken by W.& D. Downey c.1885 and published by Cassell & Company Ltd, 1890. Formed part of 'The Cabinet Portrait Gallery' series of photographs by W.& D. Downey, published between 1890-1894. They are both depicted half-length; Stirling is seated facing the right, she wears a long billowy sleeved white shirt with white emboidered cuffs and dark material wrapped around, and a plain dark headscarf with white wavy trim. Anderson is bending over Stirling and has her arms wrapped round her while looking towards the viewer, she wears a long-sleeved heavily embroidered dress.
