The Taming of the Shrew: Ada Rehan as Katherine in Augustin Daly's production of The Taming of the Shrew, 1893.

This Katherina is a very voluptuous figure. William Winter wrote, “Her physical beauty was of the kind that appears in portraits of women by Romney and Gainsborough—ample, opulent, and bewitching—and it was enriched by the enchantment of superb animal spirits." This is not a woman likely to be reduced to a zombie as in many modern productions. HMR. Courtesy of the Yorck Project.