#ellen terry

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John Singer Sargent - Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth (1889)

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OHMYGOD OHMYGOD OHMYGOD

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George Frederic Watts’ ‘Choosing’ / Shadowheart with Night Orchids

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Ellen Terry wore these costumes playing Lady Macbeth at the Lyceum Theatre in London in 1888.

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“Fashioned by Sargent” installation view. Far left, ‘‘Beetle Wing Dress’’ for Lady Macbeth. Sargent’s painting of the actress Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, in the shimmering gown (which boasts actual beetle wing cases affixed to its surface), hangs nearby. The dress was created by Alice Laura Comyns-Carr. Credit...Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

If his portraiture approached theater, Sargent also had a way of turning moments from the stage into images richly steeped in the history of painting. His painting of the actress Ellen Terry in the role of Lady Macbeth, which she played to great acclaim at London’s Lyceum Theatre in 1888, recasts her as a Pre-Raphaelite heroine with long red plaits and a shimmering blue and green gown known as the “Beetle Wing Dress” (which boasts elaborate draped sleeves and actual beetle wing cases affixed to its surface). The costume, made by the designer Alice Comyns-Carr in collaboration with Terry and the dressmaker Ada Nettleship, is exhibited alongside the painting and may be the show’s most spectacular garment.

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[victoriansquirrel]

Went to the Sargent and Fashion exhibition last week and wasn’t prepared for this. Excuse the shoddy quality, I was too excited

[atundratoadstool]

I am delighted--as always--by the breadth of readings that have emerged regarding Jack's gangrenous-wound-sucking past with Van Helsing. I think it's worth noting that an episode of blood infection may have been one of the few fictionalized medical events in Dracula where Bram drew his inspiration from his brother George (a military doctor) instead of his brother Thornley (a brain surgeon whose medical writings are pretty firmly established as having contributed to depictions of Renfield and who consulted with Bram in the novel's drafting process). There's a mention in Ellen Terry's biography as to George Stoker assisting her following an injury to her thumb that resulted in "blood-poisoning" and could have progressed to something necessitating amputation.

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Our correspondent naïvely says that even Ellen Terry could not be so winningly attractive as some of these grubby-faced little children pretend—and even imagine themselves—to be.

Ellen Terry and Stoker were working together at Irving's Lyceum Theater at the time. Iriving was several years their senior, Terry and Stoker were around the same age. Terry would call Stoker "Ma" (mom) as a nickname as friends.

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Mistress Page (Ellen Terry) by Window & Grove (English, 1872-1933 active). Publication: The plays of shakespeare. Photogravure. 1906.

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John Singer Sargent

Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth

1889

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Robert Ponsonby Staples - Ellen Terry visiting Sarah Bernhardt in her dressing room at the Royal English Opera House (ca. 1881)

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happy Ellen Terry namedrop day!!! just a reminder that she was the UK's best paid woman (other than queen Victoria). She loved cats and she jokingly called Bram Stoker mum (because they were co-workers). leading lady of the lyceum, my beloved

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Ellen Terry at Age Sixteen 1864

Photo: Julia Margaret Cameron

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Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth - John Singer Sargent, 1889

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"Choosing" (Ellen Terry)

by George Frederic Watts

Oil Painting, 1864.

National Portrait Gallery.