On the left is Miss Frances Anne Kemble as Euphrasia in The Grecian Daughter performed at Drury Lane Theatre 1830.Miss Kemble, known as Fanny, was the daughter of actors and her life was extremely interesting. http://www.historyhome.co.uk/people/kemble.htm
Tinsel prints or tinsel pictures were known as gravure découpe in eighteenth-century France and were popularized in nineteenth-century Britain as "dressed" engravings. British tinsel pictures, which typically featured popular theatrical figures, were embellished with embossed paper, bits of silk and satin, and metallic or copper foil from tea or cigar packages.
You can read more about this in an article - SPARKLE PLENTY - in Antiques Magazine Aug. 2012.
On the right is Miss Maria Foote as Mary Copp in CHARLES II, the Merrie Monarch at Covent Garden. More neat info at:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/The_Merry_Monarch_Charles_the_Second_or.aspx
These two prints are special, as they are 3D and decorated with beads, tinfoil, lace and velvet.
The background scenery is illuminating, expanding the drama. 10x12 framed. $525 each.
