Note 56 — Chapter XV · 1892. ‘KING LEAR’—‘BECKET.’

To illustrate his most recent productions, the manager is accustomed to issue what is called “a souvenir,” an artistic series of pictures of the scenes, groupings, etc. It may be added, as a proof of the pictorial interest of the Lyceum productions, that in little more than a week after the first performance of ‘Becket’ no fewer than five-and-twenty illustrations, some of great pretension, had appeared in the papers. On the first night of ‘Lear’ a marchioness of artistic tastes was seen making sketches, which were published in an evening paper.