Edwin Booth
ClassificationsPhotographs-albumen silver prints
Subject
Edwin Booth
Associated with
Madame Helena Modjeska Chlapowska
(1840 - 1909)
Date1889
MediumAlbumen print
Dimensions20 7/8 x 16 1/4 in. (53 x 41.3 cm)
Framed: 25 1/4 × 21 × 1 1/2 in. (64.1 × 53.3 × 3.8 cm)
Framed: 25 1/4 × 21 × 1 1/2 in. (64.1 × 53.3 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. A. L. Ford
Object number86.6.2
DescriptionUntitled sepia tone photograph of Edwin Booth taken in 1889. Edwin Booth was older brother of John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin. He was great Shakesperian actor and contemporary of Madame Modjeska. He also founded Actors' & Players Club on Gramercy Park in New York. Edwin died in 1893. This is signed "To Mme. Modjeska with sincere regards of Edwin Booth, 1889."On View
Not on view
December 1966
