2-798-568 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Scene from "Valentine and Orson", at the Lyceum Theatre, 1844. London stage production of 'The well-known story of "Valentine and Orson" - the foundling of the forest of Orleans...taken as the groundwork for a burlesque - the whole of the dialogue is filled with whimsical point and allusions, and written in burlesque verse...Mr. [Robert] Keeley's Orson was the acme of burlesque acting... and his talented little wife [Mary Anne Keeley] made an admirable Valentine...The house wras densely crowded, and the audience tolerably quiet'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.