Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Scrap of the Day: The Music Hall Masher, 1890

The Victoria & Albert Museum



This handsome scrap from 1890 was colored by hand and depicts a blonde female music hall performer, dressed in masculine garb--wearing a small grey bowler hat, and a monocle in her left eye. She is smoking a cigarette and holding a cane by her face. The scrap is titled “Pantomime Masher” and was printed by Siegmund Hildesheimer & Co.

The woman depicted here is the celebrated music hall male impersonator Vesta Tilley.

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