Hospital Sunday: at the entrance to a theatre, the audience are required to surrender their wigs, lipstick, etc
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| Caption | Hospital Sunday: at the entrance to a theatre, the audience are required to surrender their wigs, lipstick, etc. Drawing by Edmund J Sullivan, 1932. The subject appears to be people, characterised as middle-class, attending a Sunday performance in aid of a hospital (as organized by eg the Metropolitan Hospital-Sunday Fund) It is implied that regulations have been planned or introduced restricting the nature of public events on Sundays to non-dramatic events solely: the artist imagines the effect of such a regulation on Hospital Sunday events. Created 7 October 1932. Fund raising. Wigs. Sunday. Theaters – Law and legislation. Benefit performances. Metropolitan Hospital-Sunday Fund. Contributors: Edmund J Sullivan (1869–1933). Work ID: u32x5dt8. |
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| Creator | see caption |
| Artwork medium | pencil |
| Credit | Wellcome Collection |
| Terms of use | Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) |
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