Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company print of The Colonel performed by actor Eric Bayley
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name: label: maker
content: Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: This colored print depicts a black and white circular bust portrait of a man in the center of a yellow sunflower. The man is probably Eric Bayley (see related print DL*60.3050), a British actor who performed in the three-act farce, <i> The Colonel </i>.
label: Description
content: <i> The Colonel </i> tells the story of two imposters trying to get control of another family's fortune. It was written by F. C. Burnand (1836-1917), a British writer and editor of Punch, and based on an earlier drama called <i>The Serious Family </i>by Morris Barnett (1800-1856). It was first produced in London in 1881 and brought to the United States by Eric and Mindha Bayley in 1882. Eric Bayley played the role of Edward Langton and Mindha performed as a character named Olive.
label: Description
content: This lithograph was produced by Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company, which was founded by William H. Forbes (ca 1836-1915). He immigrated to the United States from Liverpool, England in 1848. Forbes became an apprentice in the lithography business while still a boy and established William H. Forbes and Company in Boston in 1861. The firm expanded to become Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company in 1875 with hundreds of employees and offices in Boston, New York, Chicago, and London. During World War II, the company became a major printer of allied military currency but went out of business later in the 20th century.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: Subject
content: Flowers
label: Subject
content: Theater
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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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.60.3054
label: catalog number
content: 60.3054
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: 23 in x 19 in; 58.42 cm x 48.26 cm