• Title
  Arthur Dacre, actor, 1895 / Talma, Paris panel, 119 Swanston St, Melbourne
• Creator
  Talma & Co.
• Call number
  P1/424
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1895
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  442074
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 Paris panel - image 19.6 x 13.7 cm. , on mount 25.1 x 17.2 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  For details of their poor 1895 tour and the murder-suicide of Arthur Dacre and Amy Roselle (they were married), see: The History of Australian Theatre on line (www.hat-archive.com)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: created before 1955
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Dacre, Arthur (BM)
  Digital order no:a4214024
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Photographer's stamp
  "As always Arthur Dacre" -- signature lower corner of photograph
  "Arthur Dacre came out starring with Amy Roselle whom he murdered at Macquarie House before committing suicide (probably mad)." -- on the verso of the photograph. [The evidence left suggests total despair, rather than madness.]
• Name
  Dacre, Arthur, d.1895
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  actors
  portraits
  suicides
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1659938

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