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[Blanche Walsh as Trilby] – Historic Print

[Blanche Walsh as Trilby], c1895. — historic photograph
[Blanche Walsh as Trilby], c1895.. Historic photograph 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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[Blanche Walsh as Trilby]

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Blanche Walsh, the American stage actress, is shown here in costume for the title role of Trilby, the character drawn from George du Maurier's 1894 novel about a Parisian artist's model who falls under the spell of the hypnotist Svengali. The stage adaptation was enormously popular in the 1890s, and Walsh's portrayal of the role made her one of the better-known actresses of the period. The photograph was made by B.J. Falk, a New York portrait photographer whose studio was known for theatrical sitters, and it captures the fashion and studio staging typical of celebrity portraits of the mid-1890s.

Created / publishedc1895.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted by B.J. Falk. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan989 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-123229

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