Cartoon, The Coming Rosalind
Cartoon, The Coming Rosalind, Violet Vanbrugh and F C Burnand - Shall I be safe in these, Mr Burnand? Burnand is holding a copy of the Fortnightly Review, for which he wrote theatre reviews - perhaps he had criticised Violet Vanbrugh's appearance as Rosalind (dressed in tights as a boy) in Shakespeare's As You Like It, at the Theatre Royal, Margate. The following year she was to make her first professional acting role, at Toole's Theatre, London, in Burnand's own burlesque, Faust and Loose
Picture No
12688227
Media ID
48444918
Size
2115px x 3000px
(2.4MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Cartoon by Alfred Bryan, The Entr'Acte, 17 January 1885
Date
1885
