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Print
901083
  • Title
    Hermann Vezin, actor and stage manager, in Man o' Airlie, ca. 1867 / photographer Charles Watkins, 34 Parliament Street, London
  • Call number
    P1/2107
  • Level of description
    item
  • Date

    ca. 1867
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    901083
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    1 photographic print - 16.2 x 10.7 cm - cabinet
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Hermann Vezin (1829 – 1910) was an American actor, teacher of elocution and writer. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and educated at the University of Pennsylvania but spent most of his career in London. He married the Australian actress Mrs Charles Young.

    Reference:
    Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/ (accessed July 21, 2010)
    The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW), Tuesday 14 June 1910, p. 7, column 2
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  • General note

    Transferred from P1/Vizin [sic], Hermann (BM), July 2010
    Digital order no:a4731007
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    "Hermann Vezin ... 89 ?" -- signature on the lower edge of the mount

    ""As James Harbell in W. S. Wills' "Man o' Airlie" produced at the Princess Theatre, London, July 29, 1867. Hermann Vezin" -- in Vezin's hand on the reverse

    Photographer's stamps
  • Attributions / conjectures

    Previously identified from his signature as Hermann Vizin
  • Date note

    Later cabinet print of an 1867 carte de visite ?
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