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Enrico Caruso And Others
Approximately 108 autographs in an album, circa 1911-1928, majority in black ink or pencil, a number of pages signed by casts of various theatrical productions and decorated with corresponding watercolour and ink illustrations, a few autographs accompanied by self-portrait caricatures including: Enrico Caruso from Pagliacci additionally annotated with a caricature of Dick Marney in profile and inscribed Dick! Were [sic] is my tights?, signed Enrico Caruso, London 191-; another page with two head and shoulders self-portrait caricatures of Caruso in costume from Pagliacci and Aida, signed For Dick... Enrico Caruso, London 1914; a page signed by Antonio Scotti and by Caruso beneath the latter's watercolour self-portrait caricature, dated London, 1914; another page annotated by Chaliapin with a self-portrait caricature as Boris Godanoff, signed and inscribed Boris Godanoff - F.Chaliapin - To my dear Dick! 192X, London; other signatures include Nellie Melba, inscribing a page:..souvenir of the opening of Covent Garden Theatre after the terrible war - the opera was Boheme (Mimi) Nellie Melba, May 12th 1919; Elizabeth Schumann, Claudio Muzio, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Giovanni Martinelli, Maggie Teyte, John McCormach, Marcel Journett, Emmy Destin, Clara Butt, Stanley Lupino and Charles Hawtrey, the album 4to. with original gilt-stamped green roan boards, leather dust jacket and cloth protector
Approximately 108 autographs in an album, circa 1911-1928, majority in black ink or pencil, a number of pages signed by casts of various theatrical productions and decorated with corresponding watercolour and ink illustrations, a few autographs accompanied by self-portrait caricatures including: Enrico Caruso from Pagliacci additionally annotated with a caricature of Dick Marney in profile and inscribed Dick! Were [sic] is my tights?, signed Enrico Caruso, London 191-; another page with two head and shoulders self-portrait caricatures of Caruso in costume from Pagliacci and Aida, signed For Dick... Enrico Caruso, London 1914; a page signed by Antonio Scotti and by Caruso beneath the latter's watercolour self-portrait caricature, dated London, 1914; another page annotated by Chaliapin with a self-portrait caricature as Boris Godanoff, signed and inscribed Boris Godanoff - F.Chaliapin - To my dear Dick! 192X, London; other signatures include Nellie Melba, inscribing a page:..souvenir of the opening of Covent Garden Theatre after the terrible war - the opera was Boheme (Mimi) Nellie Melba, May 12th 1919; Elizabeth Schumann, Claudio Muzio, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Giovanni Martinelli, Maggie Teyte, John McCormach, Marcel Journett, Emmy Destin, Clara Butt, Stanley Lupino and Charles Hawtrey, the album 4to. with original gilt-stamped green roan boards, leather dust jacket and cloth protector
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