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Artist	Amédée Forestier (1854–1930) Alternative names Charles Amedee Forestier; Sir Amédée Forestier; Sir A. Forestier; Amedee Forestier; Sir Amedee Forestier; C.A. Forestier Description French-British painter Date of birth/death 1854 18 November 1930 / 14 November 1930 Location of birth/death Paris Dulwich Authority file : Q4749602 VIAF : 4627149108411468780001 ISNI : 0000000078337317 ULAN : 500017817 LCCN : nr00011606 GND : 130041602 WorldCat artist QS:P170,Q4749602
Author	The Illustrated London News
Description	Amédée Forestier's illustration of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddygore , later renamed Ruddigore . For the review related to this illustration, see File:Illustrated London News - Gilbert and Sullivan - Ruddygore (Ruddigore) review.jpg The identification of scenes should be mostly correct, but they could be slightly before or after the bit named in some cases. Restored by Adam Cuerden Description British Image restorationist, composer, amateur photographer and artist, and Wikipedian As Adam lives in Britain, which makes it incredibly easy to acquire copyright in his works, he grants, if needed, an irrevokable license to use this work however you see fit. He requests attribution where possible, and realises that "where possible" means that that request is not legally enforcable. Adam Cuerden ( talk ) 15:44, 16 January 2022 (UTC) Date of birth 8 June 1979 Location of birth United States of America InfoField See file page for creator info.
Date	29 January 1887 date QS:P571,+1887-01-29T00:00:00Z/11
Source/Photographer	The Illustrated London News , self-scanned.
Permission ( Reusing this file )	The restorationist, Adam Cuerden , requests credit for his work preparing and cleaning this image. For the original: Public domain Public domain false false The author died in 1930, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or fewer . This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office ) before January 1, 1929. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ PDM Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0 false false
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Notes

1. ↑ ^{a b} Robin is identified as actually being Despard's brother Ruthven at the end of the first act, but using two names for one character on a simple diagram like this one seemed unnecessarily confusing.
2. ↑ This scene was changed shortly after this image was made: The dialogue was abridged, and Roderic's entrance was changed from entering from a trapdoor (as seen here), to entering from his picture frame. The cut dialogue passages involve a joke about how stage equipment malfunctioned a lot in the bad melodramas Ruddygore parodies, where he delivers most of the scene stuck half-way out of the trapdoor (as seen here), occasionally giving Dame Hannah excuses for why he doesn't want to come the whole way up, before he finally gets lifted the rest of the way out.