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L'Aiglon - Mme Sarah Bernhardt - Scene de Wagram
Inscription: Addressed to Mlle Marguerite Beaujean. Black-and-white reproduction of a watercolor illustration signed Espinasse. Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923) appearing in one of her most celebrated trouser roles as the son of Napoléon in L’Aiglon (1900) by playwright Edmond Rostand, who wrote the role for her. Undivided verso. Minor staining to upper margin of recto.
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- Citation
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- Identifier
- jh343s605
- Collection
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Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
- Institution
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Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
- Creator(s)
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L.H.
Bernhardt, Sarah
- Date Created
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1902
- Genre
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Ephemera
- Subject(s)
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Sarah Bernhardt
- Places
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Île-de-France
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Paris
- Topic(s)
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Male impersonators
- Resource Type
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Still Image
- Analog Format
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14.1 x 9.1 (centimeters)
- Language
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French
- Rights
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No known copyright
This image is believed to be in the public domain in the United States by virtue of publication date, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections, http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright. This collection was digitized by Cornell University Library in 2019 from materials held in the Rare and Manuscript Collections, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Professor Durba Ghosh and Brenda Marston, Curator of the Human Sexuality Collection. For more information about this image, please contact the Rare and Manuscript Collections at rareref@cornell.edu. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.
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