Photographs: PH1879

Title

Adelaide Neilson

Subject

Neilson, Lilian Adelaide

Artist

Napoleon Sarony

Dimensions

height: 16.5cm
width: 10.6cm

Inscription/signature

Printed front: "Sarony / ADELAIDE NEILSON. / 37 UNION SQR. N. Y." Handwritten in pencil on verso: "A. Neilson / as Viola / in Twelfth Night"

Provenance

Presented by Mr Michael Gaunt, June 2023.

Other number

E0138

Cabinet card depicting actress Adelaide Neilson as Viola from William Shakespeare's play 'Twelfth Night'. She is depicted in three-quarter length and facing the left. She wears a long-sleeved blouse with high-neck frill collar and a dagger hangs off a striped sash round her waist.