• Title
  Nat Goodwin, comedian - portrait, 1896 / Talma, Melbourne
• Creator
  Talma & Co.
• Call number
  P1/652
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1896
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  449195
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 Paris panel - image, 19.3 x 13.5 cm. ; mount (trimmed), 21.3 x 17.4 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  "[Augustus Thomas's] In Mizzoura was the finest production of an American company headed by the star comedian Nat Goodwin and his wife Maxine Elliott on a tour which combined artistic triumph with financial failure in 1896." -- Reference: Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991 (p.140)
• Scope and Content
  Goodwin is posed in costume sitting on a studio "fence" holding two pistols. Bob Acres is a character in Richard Sheridan's play The Rivals
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: created before 1955
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Goodwin, Nat (BM), February 2010
  Digital order no:a4216052
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Photographer's stamp -- lower edge of photograph
  "'Nat Goodwin' Nat C. Goodwin / as / Bob Acres / in 1896" -- in Goodwin's and Marr Thompson's hands on the upper edge of the photograph and mount. Despite an inscription on the lower edge of the mount, it was trimmed on accesssion
• Name
  Acres, Bob (fictitious character)
  Goodwin, Nat C.
  Rivals, The (play)
  Goodwin, Nat C.
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  comedians
  portraits
  theatrical costumes
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1655573

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