Two amateur actors, both in drag, confront each other on stage. Photographic postcard, ca. 1918.

Date:
[1918?]
Reference:
2043816i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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Two amateur actors, both in drag, confront each other on stage. Photographic postcard, ca. 1918. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The two characters perform a scene on a very detailed and furnished stage set. Amateur drag depicted without location on a British photographic postcard. One performer wears high fashion women's clothes and shoes ca. 1918, while the other is in hastily improvised costume with a headscarf and carpet slippers. A notice on stage left set says "Oratio est argentum" (Latin, "Speech is silver")

Publication/Creation

[United Kingdom] : [publisher not identified], [1918?]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; 8.5 x 13.6 cm

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
Forms a pair with Wellcome Library no. 2043827i

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2043816i

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

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