W.C. Mitchell’s pleasure party in our goblins or fun on the Rhine. : Mr. William Gill
Description
Image of a three-quarters-length portrait of playwright and actor William Gill dressed in a suit and boater hat; the poster advertises the comedy "Our Goblins" by Gill.
Image of a full-length portrait of English-American comedic actor John Owens dressed as the character "Paul Pry" with rumpled clothing, a top hat, umbrella, eyeglasses, and boots; the poster advertises the comedy "Paul Pry" written by Douglas William Jerrold.
Image of American actor and comedian John Sheridan dressed as the female character Mrs. O’Brien, an old woman in a feathered hat, entering through a door carrying hat boxes and an umbrella, with a painted screen with an image of a heron landing on a pond in the background; the poster advertises the farce comedy "Mrs. Bridget O'Brien, Esq." that was based on a character by that name in the 1880s comedy "Fun on the Bristol."
Image of a central image of a carnival with four female performers dancing around the American actor Henry Dixey, dressed in historical costume as Adonis, with four head-and-shoulder portraits of the female dancers at top and a vignette portrait framed with flowers of a head-and-shoulders profile portrait of a sad young woman with a red heart being chopped by an ax; the poster advertises the burlesque comedy "Adonis, the Statue" written by William Gill.
Image of an upper-class man in a suit and top hat scowling at a beggar with a cup begging for change; the poster presumably advertises the farce comedy "The Guv'nor" written by E. G. Lankester.
Image of American actor and comedian William Florence (also known as Billy Florence) dressed as the Irish tramp character Paddy Finnegan wearing a ragged top hat and carrying a hobo satchel on the end of a stick; the poster advertises the drama "Mike, the Miner" written by Florence.
Image of a full-length portrait of actor William E. Burton dressed as the character Timothy Toodle with a top hat and cane standing in a clearing in the woods; the poster advertises the comedic melodrama "The Toodles" adapted by Burton from the play "The Farmer's Daughter" by R. J. Raymond.
