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.
https://d28dhd8eubcyz4.cloudfront.net/iiif/2/curtis-production2-cache%2F1%2F8%2Fd%2Faea075-4a52-4a05-aeb0-2eb6bc478038%2Fresize_master_f67bf1e187537ffad74408507e269172.jpg/full/!880,1024/0/default.jpg?sig=f213e0cc5b15cb76d71054033d1a4ee3b5db96e0&ver=1628684465'The Sculptor's Dream' tableau
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Date
- 1888
- Digitisation ID
- 2007P_Pg82_EPN_0290
- Held In
- Coolstore
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- Unknown
- Place
- Palmerston North
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