• Title
  Farewell presentation album to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brough from the playgoers of Sydney, 1897
• Call number
  DL PXX 41
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1897
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  458003
• Physical Description
  1 album (16 watercolour or ink sketches and designs) - Each 15 x 25.1 cm. on sheets 30.8 x 40.9 cm; .32.5 x 44 x 8 cm. - watercolour or ink sketches and designs
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Lionel Robert Brough (1857-1906), actor-manager, and his actress wife Florence Brough (1858-1932), were contracted by J.C. Williamson. The Broughs' Australian debut was at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, on 9 May 1885 in Iolanthe. During the Brough's years in Australia, the boast that the colonies could show productions 'equal to anything in London' first showed some justification. Robert Brough collapsed from a heart ailment, and died at Sydney on 20 April 1906. Australian Dictionary of Biography, online edition.
• Scope and Content
  f.1 - Fullwood, Albert Henry. To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brough, June 1897. Farewell address from playgoers of Sydney
  f.2 - Mahony, Frank P. Rough on Brough
  f.3 - Stephens, Ethel A. "And love is loveliest when embalmed with tears"
  f.4 - Reid, D.G. [View - possibly Botany Bay]
  f.5 - Mann, Gother Victor Fyers. Sydney
  f.6 - Ashton, Julian Rossi. "There's crowns for who can reach"
  f.7 - Souter, David Henry. [Three cats]
  f.8 - Tindall, Charles Ephraim Smith. Circular Quay from North Sydney
  f.9 - Lister, William Lister. Narrabeen Lake
  f.10 - Lambert, George Washington. [Aborigine on bucking horse]
  f.11 - Waugh, J. Henry. "Au Revoir" to Mr. & Mrs. Brough. [A ship being tugged out of dock]
  f.12 - McComas, Frank J. [The Criterion Theatre]
  f.13 - Watkins, John Samuel [Portrait of a woman]
  f.14 - Fullwood, Albert Henry. Plays produced in Australia by Mr. Brough and Mr. Boucicault, 1866 to 1897
  f.15 - Fullwood, Albert Henry. Plays produced in Australia by Mr. Brough and Mr. Boucicault, 1866 to 1897
  f.16 - Fullwood, Albert Henry. Plays produced in Australia by Mr. Brough and Mr. Boucicault, 1866 to 1897
• General note
  
  The red leather cover has the intertwined initials 'R.F.B.' in gold painted metal on the centre front. Album has gilt edging, with green marbled end papers
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Most images are signed, dated, and titled.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Fullwood, A. Henry (Albert Henry), 1863-1930
  Mann, G. V. F. (Gother Victor Fyers), 1863-1948
  Ashton, Julian, 1851-1942
  Souter, D. H., 1862-1935
  Tindall, Charles E. S., 1863-1951
  Lister, William Lister (1859-1943)
  Lambert, George W. (George Washington), 1873-1930
  Watkins, J. S. (John Samuel), 1866-1942
  Stephens, Ethel A., 1855-1944
  Mahony, Frank, 1862-1916
  McComas, Frances John, 1875-1938
  Waugh, J. Henry
  Reid, D. G. (David Graeme), c. 1860-1933
  
• Name
  Brough, Florence, 1860-1932
  Brough, Robert, 1857-1906
  
• Topic
  Albums
  presentation pieces
  watercolours
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9865501

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