*G & S: ACTOR WEEDON GROSSMITH RARE 1900 AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO*

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A rare original autographed photographic postcard circa 1900 of Weedon Grossmith, actor and brother of the great Gilbert & Sullivan patter comedian and his co-author for the enduring comic novel Diary of a Nobody. Light wear otherwise good.
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From Wikipedia:
Walter Weedon Grossmith
(9 June 1854 – 14 June 1919), better known as
Weedon Grossmith
, was an English writer, painter, actor, and playwright best known as co-author of
The Diary of a Nobody
(1892) with his brother,
music hall
comedian and
Gilbert and Sullivan
star
George Grossmith
. Weedon Grossmith also illustrated
The Diary of a Nobody
to much acclaim.
Grossmith trained as a painter, but was unable to make a living in that capacity and went on the stage largely for financial reasons. He was successful as an actor and as an impresario, and wrote several plays. As an actor, he specialised in comedy roles, and his typical characters, harassed and scheming, became so identified with him that the "Weedon Grossmith part" became a regular feature of the theatre of his day.