3-047-044 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Scene from "Amos Clark", at the Queen's Theatre, 1872. London stage production. 'The success of Mr. Watts Phillips's new drama, "Amos Clark," at the Queen's Theatre, seems to be now an admitted fact. Our Illustration presents the catastrophe of the play. The hero, having rendered his younger brother liable to be tried at the drum-head by the remorseless Colonel Kirke, resolves on saving the youth by the sacrifice of himself. We have already told the story in full; the climax of it is seen in the picture before us. Amos Clark has rushed between the muskets and their victim and received the discharge in his own breast. He is then brought into the presence of the Lady Mildred, whose beauty has made the two brothers unconscious rivals, and has the satisfaction of assuring her that the one she best loved would survive to be her husband. Such is the pathetic incident. We need dwell on it no further. It tells its own tale'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.