More Info →'The Sculptor's Dream' tableau

Description

The tableau was part of the entertainment staged at an All Saints Ladies Guild Evening at the Theatre Royal, 12th and 13th of September 1888. The tableau represented a group of statues called 'The Sculptor's Dream' and was lit by coloured lights. The human waxworks are from left: Miss Katherine Keeling as Flora (daughter of Town Clerk, Robert North Keeling); Misses Randolph and McKenzie as Advance NZ; Miss Edith Abigail Margaret Clapperton as Grief; Miss Eva Haynes as Justice; Miss Goulston as Supplication; Miss Mary Jane Bell as the Angel; George Matthew Snelson as Bacchus; Amy Smith and Olive Walkley (married Mr Bailey, daughter of John Walkley of the Commercial Hotel) as the Bacchantes; Miss Lillian Josephine Clapperton as the Captive.

Identification

Object type

Image

Date

1888

Digitisation ID

2007P_Pg82_EPN_0290

Held In

Coolstore