Drawing
- Title:
- Lightning Change Artist Sulloway's Dressing Room
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 1973.051.17
- Creator:
- Coffin, John E. (1860-1905)
Artist - Date:
- circa 1896
- Description:
- Drawing, cartoon of "Lightning Change Artist Sulloway's Dressing Room", by John E. Coffin (1860-1905), c. 1896. Pen and ink on paper on paperboard. Showing two scenes. On left, three men preparing for stage appearance; short man "Rollins" on ladder helping tall man "Cy" with gold cape; "Jake" looks on. On right, theatre with two people in audience; one man, sitting in the front row, is surrounded by spider webs; the other man is seated in the balcony whistling down to stage, "Oh, I don't know". Signed lower center: "JE Coffin". Ink inscription upper left on paperboard: "LIGHTNING CHANGE ARTIST SULLOWAY'S DRESSING ROOM"; and lower left on paperboard: "CALL BOY JAKE -- Hustle, You Fellers, and Fet that Gold Cape On; the Audience is Gettin' Uneasy. " Unframed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-13.25 W-18.75 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
- People:
- Coffin, J. Ed., Coffin, John E., Gallinger, Jacob H. (1837-1918), Rollins, Frank West (1860-1915), Sulloway, Cyrus A. (1839-1917)
- Subjects:
- Political cartoons, Theaters
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