booth edwin lawrence barrett (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Quarto measuring 11" x 12". Black leather album. Contains 118 albumen photographs measuring around 5" x 8" with some captions. Good only album with detached but present front and rear boards, chips, tears, and waviness to the pages with very good photographs with some waviness. A photo album compiled in the late 1880s dated around 1885 and 1886 by the family of actor Lawrence Barrett. The photos are well-composed and show fashionably dressed friends and family posed outside the Barrett home and animals owned by the family including horses and cows. One photo of a family friend posed on a horse is an unidentified Civil War general. The Barrett summer home, later called "The Oaks" in Cohasset, Massachusetts is seen here with interior shots of the home included here, many of the walls include portraits of Barrett in various costume. Lawrence is photographed on a porch with his daughters, one of whom was the mother of actress, Edith Barrett. The Barrett's entertained often and many of the photos include group shots of visiting family and friends. Barrett's daughters, especially Gertrude, are featured throughout the album well-dressed and posed around the home. It appears the album could have been compiled by Gertrude. They also feature landscapes of the area with some of the family on horseback and hiking the area. One of these frequent visitor's was friend and fellow actor, Edwin Booth, brother of John Wilkes Booth. Five photographs show Booth at the Barrett house, a few of which are posed images of Barrett and Booth in Barrett's library. Barrett, along with Booth, became known for playing "classic roles" on stage. He was best known for his roles as Richleau and Becket as well as performing in Shakespeare productions as Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, Iago, Shylock, Leontes, Cassius, Wolsey, Hamlet, Richard III, and Benedict. After moving to New York to pursue his acting career he met and befriended Edwin Booth. After the Civil War his career took off and he was a beloved American actor until his death in 1891, a few years after these photographs were taken. Edwin passed two years later. A wonderful collection of photographs depicting the family life of an iconic American actor and his friends.