Mary Anderson
date: label: Date made
content: n.d.
name: label: depicted
content: Anderson, Mary
label: maker
content: A. Hoen & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This black and white print is a bust portrait of performer Mary Anderson wearing a scarf and a plumed hat.
label: Description
content: Mary Anderson (1859-1940) was a leading classical actress of her era. She was born in Sacramento, California, but soon moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where her father enlisted in the Confederate Army. He was killed in the American Civil War when she was just three years old. She made her acting debut in an 1875 production of <i>Romeo and Juliet</i>. She toured the United States in the years that followed, portraying romantic heroines Julia in <i> The Hunchback </i>and Pauline in <i> The Lady of Lyons</i>. Although mostly self-taught as a performer, she was said to have been influenced by the American actor Edwin Booth. A tall, striking figure with a deep and expressive voice, she was acclaimed for her beauty and talent, although sometimes disparaged for her acting technique. By the 1880s, she was winning more critical acclaim and enjoyed success as a producer, staging a lavish production of <i>Romeo and Juliet</i>. She was the first actress to play both Hermione and Perdita at the same time in <i> The Winter's Tale</i>. She had reached the height of her success in both England and the United States when she announced in 1889, at the age of thirty, that she was retiring from acting. She married a solicitor and settled in a village near Stratford-upon Avon.
label: Description
content: This lithograph was produced by A. Hoen & Co, a lithographic firm in Baltimore, Maryland and Richmond, Virginia. The company was established in the 1840s by August (1817-1886) and Ernest Hoen (1828-1893) after the death of Edward Weber and the takeover of E. Weber & Company. The company would become known for its lithocaustic method, which used an etching technique mixing citric acid and gum Arabic so that the progress of shaded patterns could be seen as they were etched into stone.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
topic: label: Subject
content: Adornment
label: Subject
content: Theater
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.3043
label: catalog number
content: 60.3043
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 17 3/4 in x 14 1/2 in; 45.085 cm x 36.83 cm