Skip to main content
Advanced Search
Frightful Scene in the Dressing-Room of the Continental Theatre, Philadelphia, On the Evening of Saturday, September 14, 1861 - Accidental Burning of a portion of the Ballet Corps While Preparing for the Dance in Shakespeare's Play of the '"Tempest," Resulting in the Death of Seven of the Dancers published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 28, 1861
Frightful Scene in the Dressing-Room of the Continental Theatre, Philadelphia, On the Evening of Saturday, September 14, 1861 - Accidental Burning of a portion of the Ballet Corps While Preparing for the Dance in Shakespeare's Play of the '"Tempest," Resulting in the Death of Seven of the Dancers published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 28, 1861
Frightful Scene in the Dressing-Room of the Continental Theatre, Philadelphia, On the Evening of Saturday, September 14, 1861 - Accidental Burning of a portion of the Ballet Corps While Preparing for the Dance in Shakespeare's Play of the '"Tempest," Resulting in the Death of Seven of the Dancers published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 28, 1861
Artist Mr. Oelschlager (American)
Publisher Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, published by Frank Leslie (American, 1852 - 1922)

Frightful Scene in the Dressing-Room of the Continental Theatre, Philadelphia, On the Evening of Saturday, September 14, 1861 - Accidental Burning of a portion of the Ballet Corps While Preparing for the Dance in Shakespeare's Play of the '"Tempest," Resulting in the Death of Seven of the Dancers
published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 28, 1861

Date1861
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsSheet: 16 1/16 × 22 in. (40.8 × 55.9 cm)
Image: 14 3/8 × 20 1/4 in. (36.5 × 51.4 cm)
Credit LineGeorgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift from the collection of Marilyn Laufer and Tom Butler in honor of Dr. William Underwood Eiland's retirement, 2023
Object number2023.459
Kasnas-Transport of Texas Beef on the Kansas-Pacific Railway - Scene at a Cattleshoot in Abilene, Kansas 1871 published by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, August 19, 1871
Kasnas-Transport of Texas Beef on the Kansas-Pacific Railway - Scene at a Cattleshoot in Abilene, Kansas 1871
published by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, August 19, 1871
Albert Berghaus
1871
Thanksgiving Day -- The Church Porch (from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper December 23, 1865)
Thanksgiving Day -- The Church Porch (from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper December 23, 1865)
Winslow Homer
1865
Thanksgiving Day -- Hanging Up the Musket (from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper December 23, 1865)
Thanksgiving Day -- Hanging Up the Musket (from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper December 23, 1865)
Winslow Homer
1865
Top: Boonesborough, Maryland, South Mountain in the Distance-Scene of Burnside's Fight Middle Left: Sugarloaf Mountain, MD Middle Right: Middleton, MD, Near South Mountain Bottom: Battle of South Mountain-Franklin's Corps Storming Crampton's Pass Verso: Map of Kentucky, Showing the Theatre of the Contest between General's Buell and Bragg published by Harper's Weekly, October 25, 1862
Top: Boonesborough, Maryland, South Mountain in the Distance-Scene of Burnside's Fight
Middle Left: Sugarloaf Mountain, MD
Middle Right: Middleton, MD, Near South Mountain
Bottom: Battle of South Mountain-Franklin's Corps Storming Crampton's Pass
Verso: Map of Kentucky, Showing the Theatre of the Contest between General's Buell and Bragg
published by Harper's Weekly, October 25, 1862
Alfred Rudolph Waud
1862
Flag-Officer Stringham (from Harper's Weekly September 14, 1861)
Flag-Officer Stringham (from Harper's Weekly September 14, 1861)
Winslow Homer
1861
Image Not Available for General Breen - US Corps Engineer, from Guadalcanal Grouping
General Breen - US Corps Engineer, from Guadalcanal Grouping
Howard Cook
Bronze medal issued in Paris to celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Corps Des Pages
Bronze medal issued in Paris to celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Corps Des Pages
Unidentified maker, Russian
1952
Image Not Available for Masonic apron
Masonic apron
Mrs. Robert Carver
1834
Image Not Available for Pine Straw Basket With Lid
Pine Straw Basket With Lid
Mrs. F. B. Cole
1945-1955
Crew of the United States Steam-Sloop "Colorado," Shipped at Boston, June, 1861 (from Harper's Weekly, July 13, 1861)
Crew of the United States Steam-Sloop "Colorado," Shipped at Boston, June, 1861 (from Harper's Weekly, July 13, 1861)
Winslow Homer
1861
The Advance Guard of the Grand Army of the United States Crossing the Long Bridge over the Potomac at 2 a.m. on May 24, 1861 (from Harper's Weekly June 8, 1861)
The Advance Guard of the Grand Army of the United States Crossing the Long Bridge over the Potomac at 2 a.m. on May 24, 1861 (from Harper's Weekly June 8, 1861)
Winslow Homer
1861
The Drive in Central Park, New York, September 1860 (from Harper's Weekly, September 16, 1860)
The Drive in Central Park, New York, September 1860 (from Harper's Weekly, September 16, 1860)
Winslow Homer
1860
    eMuseum
    Copyright © eMuseum