Photographs: PH2093

Title

Scene from 'Dearer Than Life'

Subject

Irving, Henry John (Sir)
Everard, Harriett
Wyndham, Charles (Sir)
Dyas, Ada
Clayton, John
Hodson, Henrietta
Toole, John Lawrence
Brough, Lionel

Artist

London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company Ltd.

Dimensions

height: 6.3cm
width: 10.1cm

Inscription/signature

Handwritten in black ink on front: "Wyndham Miss Dyas Miss Hodson / Miss Everard Toole Clayton Brough Irving"

Provenance

Presented by Michael Gaunt, March 2026.

Other number

E0162

Carte-de-visite depicting a scene from the production of H. J. Byron's 'Dearer Than Life' at New Queen's Theatre, 1868. The scene depicts eight full-length figures grouped around a table. In the back row, standing from left to right: Harriett Everard, Charles Wyndham, Ada Dyas, and Henrietta Hodson. In the front, seated left to right: John Lawrence Toole, John Clayton, Lionel Brough and Henry Irving.