Two actors pose on stage: a man wearing top hat and tails gazes down at a man in drag. Photographic postcard, 192-.

Date:
[between 1920 and 1929?]
Reference:
2043458i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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Two actors pose on stage: a man wearing top hat and tails gazes down at a man in drag. Photographic postcard, 192-. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The man in drag is seated wearing white, and the man in the top hat wears a monocle and tilts the seated man's head upwards.

Publication/Creation

[London] : [publisher not identified], [between 1920 and 1929?]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; 8.8 x 13.8 cm

Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "Amateur theatricals in South London, [from an inscription on the verso] mid-1920s. The ‘lady’ sports fashionably shingled hair and a ‘headache band’ bandeau worn low on the forehead with a short aigrette."
This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2043458i

Where to find it

  • Military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag

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