J. Golding & A. Park, et al.

each in a glazed satinbirch frame, depicting Mr Rowbotham as Count Godfrey Prince of Damascus, Miss Ford as Victorine in My Old Woman, Mr Wynne as Charles King of France in Joan of Arc, Mr Elton as Richard Coeur de Lion, Mr Phelps as Hamlet, Mr King as Little John, Mr. N. T. Hicks as Richard the 1st, or, the Lion King and another figure not identified together with a similar portrait of Admiral Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar

Possibly those described, Notley Abbey Inventory, April 1948, p. 29, first floor / first room, ‘Three silk and tinsel pictures framed and glazed’ (The Vivien Leigh Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, THM/433/6/1);
Photographed at Notley Abbey in the library circa 1959.

This very decorative group is a matched set and show the kinds of wear to be expected. The frames and gilt-slips are in 'country house' condition with wear and old marks and scratches and some have chips and losses to veneers. The paper ground of each is discoloured. Some paint re-touched. Some applied spangles and tinsel detached (e.g. the lion rampant from a suit of armour). These are atmospheric with marks and wear consistent with age.
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Tinsel prints were created from etched portraits of the theatrical stars of the day, playing their best loved roles on the London stage. Each print was then hand-painted in watercolour and decorated with scraps of silk, leather and tinsel. A popular pursuit during the first half of the 19th century, they were considered an adult hobby, rather than a child's. The prints were colloquially known as "penny plains" and "twopence coloureds", the names of which originated from the prices each cost to purchase. For other examples see those in the collection of the V&A Museum, London.