George Robey with sunbeam eye make-up.

Date:
[between 1910 and 1919?]
Reference:
2044487i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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George Robey with sunbeam eye make-up. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced April 2022: George Robey poses in character, with sunbeam eye make-up. Photographic postcard, 191-.

Description

Photograph of comic actor George Robey showing close-up of face in sunbeam eye makeup, earrings and wig.

Publication/Creation

London : Hana London, [between 1910 and 1919?]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; sheet 13.4 x 8.7 cm

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Lettering

George Robey Lettering written in black ink, bottom right recto

References note

Clare Barlow, Queer British art, 1861-1967, London: Tate Publishing, 2017, p. 180
James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy, Then?: One Hundred and Fifty Years if Gay Life in Pictures, London: Serpent's Tail, [1996], p. 38

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2044487i

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  • Photograph album labelled ‘Drag'

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