George Lashwood in drag performing a song about two lovers at twilight. Photographic postcard, 190-.

Date:
[between 1900 and 1909]
Reference:
2064361i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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George Lashwood in drag performing a song about two lovers at twilight. Photographic postcard, 190-. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Popular music-hall songs were often publicised on postcards which featured the lyrics with some illustration, either artist drawn or photographic. This unusual card presents a combination of both, with additional comedy added by using photomontage to make one of the lovers a pantomime Dame. This song was a major commercial success for George Lashwood (1863-1942)

Publication/Creation

[England] : [publisher not identified], [between 1900 and 1909]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; 13.7 x 8.8 cm

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Lettering

In the twi-twi-twilight. Chorus, In the twi-twi-twilight, Out in the beautiful twilight ... At each other they rush with a beautiful blush, In the twi-twilight. By arrangement with Chas. Wilmott, Hermann E. Darewski, George Lashwood and Francis Day & Hunter. Peerless Shamrock Tone, Real Photograph Lettering printed in black on bottom recto

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This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2064361i

Creator/production credits

Song composed by Herman Darewski (1883-1947) with words by Charles Wilmott, and sung by George Lashwood (1863-1942)

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  • Photograph album labelled ‘Drag'

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