• Title
  Fanny Darrell, actor, 1879 / Foster & Martin, 55 & 57, Collins St. E., Melbourne
• Creator
  Foster & Martin
• Call number
  P1/442
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1879
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  447349
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - image 14.9 x 9.7 cm. , on mount 16.6 x 10.8 cm. - 1 cabinet photoprint
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Fanny Cathcart first played Desdemona in Australia in 1855. She set new standards on the Australian stage with her ringing, intelligent delivery. In 1863-1864, Fanny played in Barry Sullivan's company while her brother James Cathcart played in the Charles and Ellen Kean company. Nellie Stewart played her first stage role, aged 5, in Kean's company also in 1864. Fanny married Robert Heir who died in 1868. In 1870 she married Robert Darrell, famous for his play The Sunny South. She died in 1879 from kidney and liver disease, during the record run of her husband's The Forlorn Hope. -- Reference: Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991 (pp.54,55,63,88)
  For a biography of Fanny Cathcart, see: Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.3, 1851-1890. Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1969 (pp.369-371)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Darrell, Fanny (BM), January 2010
  Digital order no:a4214042
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Photographer's stamps
  Yours truly / Fanny Darrell -- signature on the lower edge of the photograph
• Date note
  
  Dated from the period Foster & Martin had "55 & 57" as the street numbers on their photographs -- Reference: Australians behind the camera : early Australian photographers / Sandy Barrie. Sydney South : S. Barrie, c1992
• Name
  Darrell, Fanny
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  actors
  portraits
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3217949

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