Stage & Screen
BENSON
(Sir Francis Robert, 1858-1939, Actor-manager)
Striking Signed Portrait Postcard Photograph, by Lizzie Caswall Smith,
signed and inscribed in a blank corner of image, showing him half length, three quarter face, in a velvet coat and plumed hat, deep in thought, his left hand to his cheek, his right in the crook of his left elbow, which rests on the back of a chair, published by J. Beagles & Co., London, 5½ x 3½, no place, no date, circa
Item Date: 1905
Background
'From 1886 to 1916 F.R. Benson directed the festival at Stratford-upon-Avon, producing all but two of Shakespeare's plays.
part of left side lightly silvered, face and signature unaffected
Stock No. 55290