3-052-694 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Tableaux Vivants, from Sir Walter Scott's novels, at Cromwell House, South Kensington, 1880. '1. Woodstock, chap, xxxiv. 2. Woodstock, chap. xxiv. 3. Quentin Durward, chap. x. 4. Kenilworth, chap. vii. 5. Ivanhoe, chap. xliv. C. Ivanhoe, chap. xi. 7. Woodstock, chap. viii. Drawn from photographs taken by Mr. Van der Weyde's light during the representations...A series of highly attractive entertainments, arranged by some of the most eminent artists of the day, and performed by ladies and gentlemen of social position, took place..for the benefit of charitable funds...The pictures were seen sometimes through an oval, sometimes a square frame of dark claret-coloured velvet. The rich dresses were displayed with good effect, and there was no lack of beautiful faces and graceful figures, or of spirit and dramatic expression in the attitudes of the lady actors. The gentlemen, also, mostly bore their parts very well. A complete set of photographs of those tableaux vivants was obtained by means of Mr. Van der Weyde's invention of an artificial light for the purpose of photography, which is far superior to ordinary English daylight. Mr. Van der Weyde is an American artist of considerable talent, whose paintings have been exhibited at our Royal Academy'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.