Mr Forbes Robertson
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
Photographic card
Measurements
139 x 91 mm
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1337199
Summary
Black and white portrait photograph on a postcard of an actor in a costume of coat, waistcoat and lace jabot, holding two large books. Printed below "Mr. Forbes Robertson"; 'G 179 R' and 'J.Beagles & Co.'. Forbes Robertson real name was Johnston Forbes-Robertson. This picture is of him as the character Mark Embry in the play 'Mice and men', written by Madeleine Lucette Ryley.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.