Set designs for The Big Show by Mark Lawson and Dash, 1916.

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Set designs for The Big Show by Mark Lawson and Dash, 1916.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/704774282

One set design in watercolor for The Big Show, Act 1: Brighton Beach is signed Mark Lawson; the other two paintings in pastel, by same hand, one signed Nash, depict scenes and performers in The Big Show.

3 designs : color ; 86 cm. x 45 cm. and smaller.

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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SNAC Resource ID: 8032646

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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