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By the 1820s they had become more elaborate and sometimes embossed, and within a decade both the printing and embossing processes were automated. They were colour printed by chromolithography, and coated with a gelatine and gum layer to give them a gloss finish. After being embossed they were die-cut and put through a stamping press to cut away the unwanted areas of paper, leaving the individual images connected by small strips, often bearing the name or initials of the maker.\r\n\r\nScraps became extremely popular in Victorian England to be cut out by adults or children and stuck into albums, on to screens, or used for decorating greetings cards. This scrap is one of a set of twelve produced by Signumd Hildesheimer & Company depicting Shakespearean characters played by popular actors. They were sold in packs costing one shilling, titled <i>Characters from Shakespeare. A Series of Twelve Relief Scraps</i>.Wilson Barrett and Mary Eastlake, seen here as Ophelia and Hamlet, starred in <i>Hamlet</i> at London's Princess's Theatre, 18 October 1884.","physicalDescription":"Full-colour chromolithograph scrap mounted on black paper depicting  Mary Eastlake as Ophelia with flowers in her hair and wearing a long, tight-fitting white dress with white cord sash, holding a spring of flowers, standing on the left of Wilson Barrett as Hamlet, who is dressed in a blue doublet and hose and tights. To the left of Hamlet's head is printed some of the dialogue from <i>HAMLET</i> with the attribution: 'HAMLET Act IV Scene 5.' The scrap is complete with the name of the series, the number of the item and the monogram of the printer.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Siegmund Hildesheimer & Co.","id":"A21308"},"association":{"text":"printer","id":"x30811"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"},{"text":"printing ink","id":"AAT187371"}],"techniques":[{"text":"colour lithography","id":"AAT190525"},{"text":"die cutting","id":"AAT233399"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Printed paper","categories":[{"text":"Entertainment & Leisure","id":"THES48959"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&P","id":"THES48602"},"images":["2010EJ7582"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"006","id":"THES356631"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"prints","id":"AAT41273"}],[{"text":"colour lithographs","id":"AAT41383"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Great Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"printed","id":"x46159"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1890","earliest":"1885-01-01","latest":"1894-12-31"},"association":{"text":"printed","id":"AAT53319"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"S.1:2-2008","id":"O145551"},"association":"Duplicate"},{"object":{"text":"S.1:1-2008","id":"O143447"},"association":"Object"},{"object":{"text":"S.1:3-2008","id":"O1110940"},"association":"Object"},{"object":{"text":"S.1:4-2008","id":"O1110939"},"association":"Object"}],"creditLine":"Given by the British Theatre Museum Association","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"14.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"maximum","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"12.3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"maximum","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Monogram, entwined letters S.H & Co., printed in gold","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Monogram of Siegmund Hildesheimer & Co,. London, New York & Manchester, 1888-1927."}],"objectHistory":"Mary Eastlake and Wilson Barrett appeared in <i>Hamlet</i> at the Princess's Theatre, 16 October 1884.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Shakespearean characters paper scrap depicting Wilson Barrett (1846-1904) as Hamlet and Mary Eastlake as Ophelia in <i>Hamlet</i> Act IV, scene 5, Princess's Theatre, 16 October 1884. Chromolithograph printed by Siegmund Hildesheimer & Co., ca.1890. 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