Painting

Painted illustration created for publication in a newspaper/illustrated magazine. It was published in vol.100 of The Illustrated London News in 1892. It shows the characters Isolde and Brängane in a performance of Wilhelm Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) opera Tristan and Isolde at Bayreuth. The illustration was painted by the artist Sir Amédée Forestier (1854-1930) to illustrate an article by the writer Mark Twain (real name, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910).

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.