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Ellen Tree made her professional stage debut in London in 1822 in a musical version of "Twelfth Night" and is shown here the same year as Julia in "Two Gentlemen of Verona." In 1842 she would marry fellow actor Charles Kean and form a dynamic professional partnership.
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Title: Miss Tree as Julia in "Two Gentlemen of Verona"
Artist:
Isaac Robert Cruikshank (British, London 1789–1856 London)
Publisher:
George Humphrey (British, 1773?–1831?)
Sitter:
Ellen Kean (British, 1805–1880)
Author:
Related author William Shakespeare (British, Stratford-upon-Avon 1564–1616 Stratford-upon-Avon)
Date: March 1822
Medium: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:
Plate: 8 15/16 × 6 1/4 in. (22.7 × 15.9 cm)
Sheet: 10 13/16 × 7 3/8 in. (27.4 × 18.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number: 17.3.756-2473
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