Drawing

This pen and ink illustration created for publication in an illustrated newspaper or magazine, probably the Illustrated London News.It shows the actress Miss Winifred Emery (1861-1924) as Margery Armstrong in Act 4 the 1894 production of The New Woman by Sidney Grundy at the Comedy Theatre, London which ran for over a hundred performances.

The image was drawn by the artist, William Douglas Almond (1866-1916), and is signed with his initials in the bottom left hand corner.

This item is one of several theatrical drawings from a collection of sketches commissioned from contemporary artists to be printed in illustrated magazines. The collection was donated to the museum by Sir William James Ingram in 1914.