[Scrapbook page featuring Ira Aldridge in a Covent Garden playbill and two small portraits, one with accompanying German text] [graphic].

[Scrapbook page featuring Ira Aldridge in a Covent Garden playbill and two small portraits, one with accompanying German text] [graphic].

Folger card catalog title: Ira Aldridge's first appearance at Covent Garden in the role of Othello - a play bill dated 1833 plus 2 small engraved portraits and an article in German, mounted together

[England?], [mid-19th century]

1 collage ; 18 7/8 x 14 in.

paper

Playbill: "Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden ... This present Wednesday, April 10, 1833, will be performed Shakspeare's tragedy of Othello ... Othello by Mr. Aldridge, a native of Senegal, known by the appellation of the African Roscius ... his first appearance on this stage..." (12 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.)

First image: "Ira Aldridge as 'Othello'" (wood engraving, 3 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.) after a lithograph by Simon Bühler

Second image: "Ira Aldridge" (wood engraving, 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.) after an 1853 portrait by Miklós Barabás, with accompanying German-language biographical sketch.

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2016. America's Shakespeare.

Covent Garden Theatre. This present Wednesday, April 10, 1833, will be performed Shakspeare's tragedy of Othello ... to which will be added ... Elfin sprite and The grey woman

ART File A365.5 no.5 (size L)

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