| Collection | David Drummond Pantomime Collection |
| Description | Scrapbook containing pasted watercolour sketches of characters from various plays, pantomimes, and operas, including plays by William Shakespeare. Characters and actors/actresses include Duke Orsino, Troilus and Cressida, Lady Mortimer in Henry IV Part 1, Shylock, Juliet, Moth in Loves Labour Lost, Gilbert, Miss West, Imogen in Cymbeline, Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester, Mistress Ford in Merry Wives of Windsor, Helena in Midsummer Night's Dream, Miss Eastlake as Mona Mylrea in Ben-My-Chree, Geraldine Ulmar as Elsie Maynard om The Yeoman of the Guard, Juliet in Measure for Measure, Flavia in Loves Labour Lost, Katherine and Bianca in the Taming of the Shrew, Maria in Twelfth Night, Prince Felix, the Fairy Godmother, and Edith Bruce as Cinderella from the Palace pantomime of 1888-1889 and as Aladdin, Rosaline in Love's Labour Lost, Hermione in a Winter's Tale, Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, Lucie Vaughan as various characters, including Abenazar the magician, Cordelia in King Lear, Damian and Katherine in Loves Labour Lost, Lady Capulet, Diana in Alls Well That Ends Well, Rosalind in As You Like It, Jessica and Lorenzo in Merchant of Venice, Octavia in Anthony and Cleopatra, Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing, Hippolyta in Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Lady Jane Rocheford in Henry VIII, two ladies of the court of Charles II, Anne of Warwick in Richard III, a lady attending on the Queen in Richard II, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Goneril and Regan in King Lear, Thaisa in Pericles, Clara Ellison as Princess Badroulbaddor, the Good Fairy of the Genie of the Ring, William Hogarth as the Emperor of China, the Prince of Arabia, and a Dryad's reverie disturbed by Cupid. There are also pasted cuttings of unknown characters in costumes such as a Christmas gown, a ball gown, an evening dress. The individual who owned this scrapbook has labelled characters and performances throughout. |