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[Mr. Couldock and his daughter (Eliza?) in scene from The Chimney Corner"]" – Antique Print

[Mr. Couldock and his daughter (Eliza?) in scene from The Chimney Corner"]", 1869 — antique engraving
[Mr. Couldock and his daughter (Eliza?) in scene from The Chimney Corner"]", 1869. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of [Mr. Couldock and his daughter (Eliza?) in scene from The Chimney Corner"]". It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Charles Walter Couldock, a English-born stage actor who worked on American stages for much of the nineteenth century, appears here with a young woman whom the caption tentatively identifies as his daughter, Eliza. The wood engraving illustrates a scene from *The Chimney Corner* and ran in *Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper* on November 13, 1869. Such engravings translated live performances into line work for weekly readers who could not attend the theater, so the image reflects how newspapers reached audiences before photographs were easily reproduced in print.

Created / published1869
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
SubjectsTitle and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 29, no. 738 (1869 Nov. 13), p. 148 (top image and text). Reference copy may be in BIOG FILE - Couldock, Charles Walter, 1815-1898. Caption card tracings: Theater--Plays--Chimney C--; BI; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,457 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-171071

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