File:Poundspapillon.jpg

This file was listed as a possibly unfree file on 2012 April 2. The result of the discussion was keep.

Summary[edit]

Source: Scan of postcard published in 1903. The image was originally published in The Play Pictorial in 1903 to publicize The Duchess of Dantzic, a comic opera produced at the Lyric Theatre in London in 1903. (The Play Pictorial, September 1903, pp. 145–60). It was then made into a postcard, from which this image is scanned. See: https://www.flickr.com/photos/plymouthhistory/5999548236/ (where an illegal claim of copyright is made); and https://www.flickr.com/photos/42399206@N03/5406641833/in/photostream/

1903 image of Courtice Pounds in costume for his role as Papillon in The Duchess of Dantzic, a comic opera produced at the Lyric Theatre in London in 1903.

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