Melodramatic posters & prints

A cloaked figure before the bed of an anguished man Edward Armitage

A private rehearsal of Jane Shore, 1790 John Nixon

The Giaour, 1826 Alexandre Marie Colin

Isabella and the Pot of Basil, 1867 William Holman Hunt

Mel Torme Harry Hammond

Mel Torme Harry Hammond

The Effect of Melodrama Louis Leopold Boilly

Bust of a Man, Probably Pieter Tillemans John Michael Rysbrack

Audrey Hepburn arrives for the premiere of My Fair Lady in New York with husband Mel Ferrer and Stan Holloway Anonymous

Audrey Hepburn with Mel Ferrer and their pet dog in Rome Zwirn

Lena Ashwell in Bonnie Dundee Ellis & Walery

Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbour, 12th & 13th April 1861, pub. by Currier & Ives American School