| Ref No | DDP/MUS/1/030 |
| Collection | David Drummond Pantomime Collection |
| Title | Comin' thro' the dye! (C. Osborne's parody on "Comin' thro' the rye") |
| Name of creator | Campbell, Herbert, 1844-1904 |
| Date | No date |
| Extent | 1 sheet music |
| Description | Sheet music for piano and voice titled “The pantomime” (front cover only). The performer is depicted on the cover, in lithograph, as “Mary Jane” wearing a pastel blue dress with a high collar and large bow. Two small circular portraits depict the “Beauty, Lady Dunlo” and “The Beast, J. Dauban”. Other inset scenes depict a man and a woman looking at a garment across a counter, a woman with a caged bird and a man and a woman with a donkey, the woman saying “Oh pa, the pony is changing colour”. |
| Notes | The images in this record contain racist depictions of black persons that may be harmful or triggering. All such content is presented here in the interest of historical accuracy, as altering them would risk falsifying the historical record. It would also |
| Front cover only |
| Sung with the greatest possible success by Herbert Campbell at every performance of Augustus Harris's pantomime of Beauty and the beast at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane' - front cover. |
| Subject | Pantomime |
| Theatre |
| Music |
| PhysicalDescription | 250 x 350mm, black and coloured ink printed on paper |
| Related Person | Osborne, C., composer and lyricist |
| Related Organisation | C. Sheard, London, publisher |
| Banks, H. G., lithographer |
| Related Place | London |
| Category | Sheet music |
| Access conditions | This material is available for consultation at the University of Kent's Special Collections & Archives reading room, Templeman Library, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NU (specialcollections@kent.ac.uk). |
| Copyright | Material within the archive may remain within copyright under the terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Special Collections & Archives staff will assist where possible in helping trace copyright holders, but it is ultimately the responsibility of users to obtain the permission of the copyright holder for reproduction of copyright material for uses other than research or private study. |
| Level | Item |