Details
Contributor Brady, Mathew B., ca. 1823-1896, photographer.
Title Heron, Matilda, 1830-1877.
Alternate title Matilda Heron, as “Medea,” from an ambrotype by Brady.
Publisher [New York? : s.n.]
Date [1857?]
Physical description 1 print : engraving ; 17.7 x 11.2 cm.
Description Full-length portrait of the actress in costume as Medea. She wears Grecian robes and drapes a long beaded necklace around her head and across her chest. A brooch with a portrait on it adorns her right sleeve and she wears a bracelet beaded with pearls.
Notes In Frank Leslie’s illustrated newspaper, vol. 3, no. 59 (Jan. 24, 1857), p. 128.
“Miss Heron’s style is her own. She has endeavored throughout her career to perfect such abilities as were most natural to herself : hence her success in producing powerful emotions upon her audiences. At first she is rather quiet - almost tame, some would suppose - but she gradually warms up with the progress of the play, and closes the performance with some of the most powerful effects it is possible to imagine. In most of her scenes she is perfectly natural, and refuses to use any of the trickeries which have so long defaced the efforts of some of our best actors.”--P. 128.
Another portrait found in: Ballou’s pictorial drawing-room companion, vol. 14, no. 8 (Apr. 4, 1857), p. 177.
Genre Portrait prints -- 1850-1859.
Engravings -- 1850-1859.
Subject Heron, Matilda, 1830-1877 -- Portraits.
Women.
Actresses.
Irish American women.