The After Dark Galop, by Charles Coote Junior
Promotional music sheet for the After Dark Galop of 1868 by Charles Coote Junior, sung by Tommy Dodd. An archetypal Victorian melodrama image of the last-minute rescue of a man tied to a railway line. Its appearance in "After Dark" by Dion Boucicault, first produced Princess's Theatre, 12th August 1868. was the first in Britain, although it had been used in the U.S.A. The train is travelling on the newly opened underground railway, the first in the world
Picture No
12254562
Media ID
46898678
Size
3599px x 5331px
(7.2MB)
Credit
© The Michael Diamond Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Original Music Sheet Cover
Date
1868





























