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Window & Grove Cabinet Photo-Dame Ellen Terry as "Portia" in Merchant of Venice
$ 26.4
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Beautiful cabinet photo of Dame Ellen Terry as Portia in the Merchant of Venice. Window and Grove, the photographers, were photographers to the royal family at that time. The condition of the cabinet photo is as depicted in the scans but is very nice. Free Shipping domestically. Thank you for looking and hoping for your bid!Ellen Terry
, in full
Alice Ellen Terry
, (born February 27, 1847,
Coventry
, Warwickshire, England—died July 21, 1928, Small Hythe, Kent), English actress who became one of the most popular stage performers in both Great Britain and
North America
. For 24 years (1878–1902) she worked as the leading lady of
Sir Henry Irving
in one of the most famous partnerships in the theatre. In the 1890s she began her famous “paper courtship” with
George Bernard Shaw
, one of the most brilliant correspondences in the history of English letter writing.