| Ref No | MWT/MUS/1/0144 |
| Collection | Max Tyler Music Hall Collection |
| Title | Comin' Thro' The Dye! |
| Name of creator | Campbell, Herbert, 1844-1904, performer |
| Extent | 1 sheet music |
| Description | Front cover of sheet music, appearing as one sheet (2 pages total). The front cover depicts Herbert Campbell dressed as a woman in a blue frock with a white frilly collar, with blonde curly hair. There are two smaller images in circles next to the main image, one of Lady Dunlo as Beauty (a white woman with long blonde hair and a pink dress), and one of J. Dauban as the Beast (a black person with large ears, nose, and mouth, and large gold hoop earrings). Along the left hand side of the front cover are some illustrations, including a man and woman looking at a shirt, a woman with glasses dressed in a black dress being frightened of a bird in a cage, and a drawing of a woman. To the right of the page is an illustration of two people next to a donkey. |
| Notes | Also includes a list of New and Standard Songs of Intrinsic Merit on the back page |
| Some small tears along the edges of the paper |
| The illustration of the Beast is racist and includes stereotypes used to negatively describe black people |
| Subject | Musical Theatre |
| Music Hall |
| Comedy |
| Songs |
| PhysicalDescription | 360 x 261 mm, black and coloured ink printed on paper |
| Related Person | Harris, Augustus, creator of the pantomime "Beauty and the Beast" |
| Banks, H. G, illustrator |
| Osborne, C., writer and composer |
| Related Organisation | Charles Sheard & Co., Music Publishers and Printers, publisher |
| Related Place | London |
| Bournemouth |
| 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 |