Lyric Collection

Beggars Opera Poster
Poster for production at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith (London)

Theatre Crowd in Shaftesbury Avenue, London
The early winter and Christmas season in London - a theatre crowd pouring out into Shaftesbury Avenue. The scene is outside the Lyric Theatre, looking towards the Globe, the Queen s

Fourth Avenue, Huntington, West Virginia, USA
Fourth Avenue (looking east), Huntington, West Virginia, USA. 1915

Windmill Theatre
The Windmill Theatre on the corner of Great Windmill Street and Shaftesbury Avenue, and the Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in London

Muses - Thalia, Erato
Thalia muse of comic drama and Erato muse of lyric poetry

Horace in Archway
QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Roman lyric poet and satirist

PINDAR ( GREEK BUST )
PINDAR - Greek lyric poet (author of Odes of Victory and many others) Date: circa 522 - 438 BC

Euterpe, muse of music and lyric poetry, holding a flute. Found in the Tiburtino area of Rome near the Villa d Este. Copperplate engraving by Gio. Perini after an illustration by A

The second working trials of the sporting spaniel club, 1899. Date: 1899

Lilac Time by Adrian Ross from Das Dreimaederlhaus by A. M. Willner and H. Reichert; music from the melo-dies of Franz Schubert (Raimundttheater, Vienna 15/1/1916)

The Best People, by Gray and Hopgood
The Best People, a comedy by David Gray and Avery P Hopgood. First produced in England at the Grand Theatre, Blackpool, March 1926, and later the same month at the Lyric Theatre, London

Emma Eames - American opera singer
Emma Eames (1865-1952), American opera singer (soprano) performed in Europe and America from 1889 to 1916. Date: 1890

The Song the Kettle is Singing (in a dear little place called home) - written and composed by Worton David and Lawrence Wright - sung with enormous success by Miss Florrie Forde and Miss Dora Lyric

Ellen Terry's Bouquet at the Lyric Theatre, London, 29 July 1917 - WW1 charity programme cover Date: 1917

Johnny Zero, WW2 Music Cover
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for Johnny Zero, lyric by Mack David, words by Vee Lawnhurst, featured and broadcast by George Elrick, who can be seen in the portrait photograph

Soldiers in His Excellency at the Lyric Theatre
Actors appearing as 11 soldiers in His Excellency at the Lyric Theatre. You may laugh at our dancing schoolery, It's all very well - it amuses you

Fray Luis de Leon (1527-1591). Spanish poet
Fray Luis de Leon (Belmonte, 1527-Madrigal de las Altas Torres, 1591). Spanish poet. Portrait. Illustration by Llanta. Lithography. Cronica General de Espana

Music cover, Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered, lyric by Lorenz Hart, music by Richard Rodgers, featured and broadcast by Billy Cotton and his Band Date: 1941

Music cover, Sing Gipsy, sung by Irene Ambrus
Music cover, Sing Gipsy (Chante Tzigane), English lyric by Jack Fishman, words and music by Charles Humel, sung by Irene Ambrus Date: 1946

Music cover, My Song for You, Jan Kiepura
Music cover, My Song for You, lyric by Frank Eyton, music by Mischa Spoliansky, from the Gaumont British picture My Song for You, starring Jan Kiepura. Date: 1934

A White Man - play at The Lyric Theatre, London, featuring (from left) Mr A G Poulton as Sir John Applegate, Mr Charles Allan as Malcolm Petrie, Miss Nora Lancaster as Countess of Kerhill

The Medal and the Maid, musical comedy at the Lyric Theatre, Tom B Daviss company, book by Owen Hall, lyrics by C H Taylor, music by Sidney Jones. Date: 1900s

Alas for her that met me. Illustration by Florence Harrison for Tennysons poem, Lyric from Maud. Date: c.1920

Erato, muse of lyric poetry, holding a lyre (cithara). Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789

Mass meeting in Cobalt, Ontario, Canada
Mass meeting in Cobalt, a silver mining town in Ontario, Canada. circa 1908

Morris Clark, renowned for being one of the Gibson Girls, appearing in The Catch of the Season, at the Vaudeville Theatre, London. Date: 1905

Gabrielle Ray (1883 - 1973), English stage actress, dancer and singer, her photographs on picture postcards in the Edwardian times, sold more than other stage beauties

Poster for La Cigale at the Lyric Theatre, London. 1890

A Favourite of the Lyric Stage - Miss Marie Dainton Resting Date: 1904

On Trial, Lyric Theatre, London, showing a courtroom scene. 1910s

Abraham Lincoln, a play by John Drinkwater, performed at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1918 and at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, West London, from 1918 to 1919. 1919

Winifred Hare as Stella, perched precariously on a crescent moon, in The Silver Slipper at the Lyric Theatre in 1901. Date: 1901

Hungary - Ballassa Balint
A Hungarian Actor dressed as Baron Balint Balassi de Kekko et Gyarmat (15541594) - a Hungarian Renaissance lyric poet, the founder of modern Hungarian lyric and erotic poetry. Date: 1904

Erato. Statue of Muse of lyric poetry playing the zither
Classical mythology. Erato. Muse of lyric poetry. Roman statue. 2nd century AD. The muse is depicted playing the zither or lyre. From Monte Calvo, Italy. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen, Denmark

Bernger Von Horheim (late 12th century). of the court of Henr
Bernger Von Horheim (late 12th century). German poet of the court of Henry IV. The poet with his beloved holding a dog in her lap, a symbol of fidelity. Fol

Music cover, Save Your Sorrow, sung by Florrie Forde
Music cover, Save Your Sorrow For To-Morrow, lyric by B G de Sylva, music by Al Sherman, sung by Florrie Forde. 1925

The Chocolate Soldier by Stanislaus Stange. Music by Straus
The Chocolate Soldier is an operetta translated by Stanislaus Strange (18621917) from Der Tapfere Soldat (German title) by Bernauer and Jacobson

Anacreon of Teos ( 582-485 BC). Bust
Anacreon of Teos ( 582-485 BC). Greek poet. Bust. Roman copy after a greek original. Marble. Neues Museum. Berlin. Germany

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 Bc-8 Bc). Known as Horace. Roman lyric poet. Opera. Ed. Venice, 1727. Episcopal Library. Barcelona. Spain

Germanic bards. Colored engraving
Bard. Among the ancient Celts, a poet who composed panegyrics and songs of war, but then went on to describe the heroic or lyric poet of any age or country. Germanic bards. Colored engraving

Tallulah Bankhead and Leslie Howard in Her Cardboard Lover
Tallulah Bankhead and Leslie Howard appearing in in Her Cardboard Lover at the Lyric Theatre, London in 1928. Date: 1928

From Convent to Throne by J A Campbell
Promotional postcard for From Convent to Throne by J.A. Campbell by artist E P Kinsella. First produced at the Rotunda in Liverpool, 26th July and the Lyric, Hammersmith on 6th September 1909

For Wife and Kingdom by Ward Bailey. First produced at the Theatre Royal in Smethwick, on 8th March 1909 and moving to the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, on 29th March 1909

The Duenna by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (30 October 1751 7 July 1816). First produced at Covent Garden Theatre on 21st November 1775

Clancarty at the Lyric Theatre, 1907
Tom Taylors Clancarty was first produced as Lady Clancarty at the Olympic Theatre in 1874, with Henry Neville playing Lord Clancarty and Ada Cavendish playing Lady Clancarty

Cigarette a Child of the Army by Barry Montour. The lyrics are by E. Warham St. Leger, with music by J. Haydn Parry (1864 - 1894)

Brigadier Gerard by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, based on the character in The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1896). First produced at the Imperial Theatre on 3rd March 1906

Bought and Paid For by George Broadhurst
Postcard for the play Bought and Paid For by George Broadhurst, showing elegantly dressed lady in evening gown and headdress with feather. First produced at The Lyric Theatre on 12th March 1913

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