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After colour lithography took off in the late 1830s, coloured illustrations could be produced cheaply in large numbers. There was a huge demand for sheet music in the late 19th century when more and more people owned upright pianos and could play and sing favourite songs from popular productions at home.\n\nThis music sheet cover illustrates the 'Topial Duet' <i>You're Another, or Nothing of the Sort</i> written and composed by E.V. Page and sung by Arthur Roberts (1852-1933) as the Dame figure Mrs. Crusoe and James Fawn (1847-1923) as Timothy in the pantomime <i>Robinson Crusoe</i> that opened at London's Drury Lane Theatre on Boxing Day 1881. Roberts and Fawn regularly worked together in pantomime, singing duets in which they alternated verses. This image was by Alfred Concanen (1835-1886), probably the best-known and most prolific music sheet illlustrator who started his career in the 1860s and was a staff illustrator for <i>The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News</i> in the 1870s. He would be seen regularly in theatres sketching the performers and scenes that were published as music sheet cover illustrations.","physicalDescription":"Front cover only of a music sheet for the 'topical duet' <i>You're Another, or Nothing of the Sort</i>, [<i>Your'e Another</i>-sic], sung in the pantomime <i>Robinson Crusoe</i>, written and composed by E.V. Page, printed and published in London. Illustrated with a colour lithograph by Alfred Concanen showing Arthur Roberts as Mrs. Crusoe, holding a fan and wearing a green and white dress with clocked stockings, and James Fawn as Timothy, wearing an orange suit with a wide red lapels on the jacket, red side stripes on the trousers, a double-breasted waistcoat, a large red bow tie, and black shoes with red rosettes. 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