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Photographs: PH1979
Title
Mrs Bancroft and the cast of 'School of Scandal'
Subject
Artist
Elliott and Fry
Dimensions
height: 6.3cm
width: 10.4cm
width: 10.4cm
Inscription/signature
Printed on front: "ELLIOTT & FRY / Copyright / 55. BAKER ST. / PORTMAN SQR."
Other number
E0165
Exhibition history
Presented by Michael Gaunt, March 2026.
Carte-de-visite depicting Marie Bancroft as Lady Teazle, William Farren as Sir Peter Teazle, and John Clayton as Joseph Surface; with two other unidentified actors in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 'School for Scandal', which opened at Prince of Wales’s Theatre on 4 April 1874. They are depicted full length and standing in front of a plain backdrop with a draped curtain on the left. They wear Georgian-inspired 18th-century costumes.
