Cecil Raleigh & Seymour Hicks great English play Sporting life – Vintage Poster Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Cecil Raleigh & Seymour Hicks great English play Sporting life, a vintage poster rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Cecil Raleigh & Seymour Hicks great English play Sporting life
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Lord Woodstock's "friendly set-to," a bout of boxing in a courtyard, is the moment this poster highlights from the production. *Sporting Life* was a London melodrama by Cecil Raleigh and Seymour Hicks, part of the Drury Lane tradition of large sporting spectacles that mixed gambling, racing and rough-and-tumble action for crowds in the 1890s. The lithograph dates to 1898 and was printed by the Strobridge Lithographing Company of Cincinnati and New York for Jacob Litt, a theatrical publisher who supplied posters to promote productions in the United States.
| Created / published | 1898 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 74 x 105 cm. |
| Notes | 48687 U.S. Copyright Office Created and copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co. Cincinnati & New York. Jacob Litt proprietor. Caption: Lord Woodstock has a friendy set-to. N.Y. no. 8177. · Raleigh Cecil 1856-1914. Hicks Seymour Sir 1871-1949. Litt Jacob. |
| Subjects | Boxing. Spectators. Courtyards--England. Melodramas. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Performing Arts Posters |
| Original scan | 2,752 × 2,104 px · prints to 9 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-THR-272326 |
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