[PLAYBILL] Private Theatricals given by H. E. The Governor & Mrs. Robinson. Perth, W.A., December 15, 1876. Dearest Mamma … Whitebait at Greenwich.

[Perth, WA : s.n., 1876]. Broadsheet, 215 x 140 mm, lithograph-printed recto in blue on buff paper, text set within decorative border with royal coat of arms at head; laid down on a section of a nineteenth-century album leaf, mild toning.

Perth playbill listing the casts of two theatrical pieces. Performers include Mr. H. C. Princep, Mrs. Hocking, Miss Hocking, Mr. H. H. Hocking, Mr. C. H. James, Mrs. Wilkinson, Mr. M. C. Fraser, Mr. O. Burt. Manager: Mr. J. C. H. James. Prompter: Mr. M. C. Fraser.

A rare ephemeral printing dating from a time before there was any homegrown professional theatre in Western Australia (the first purpose-built professional theatre in Perth, the Theatre Royal, did not open until 1897).

Provenance: UK trade, ex UK private collection. Originally contained in a nineteenth-century commonplace album which was almost certainly compiled by a British immigrant to Western Australia in the 1870s-80s, possibly Mrs. Elizabeth Wilkinson (Clarke) (1844-1929), wife of Captain George Faulkner Wilkinson (1837-1884).