[ The Lyric Club, Piccadilly and Barnes. ] Original photographic print of an interior at the 'Lyric Club', with a newsaper cutting reporting that the New Lyric Club is 'starting on its career with every prospect of a brilliant success'.`

The sepia photographic print is 15.5 x 11.5 cm, and shows a sumptuous domestic interior, showing paintings around an ornately carved wooden doorframe, into another room, with hangings draped footstool, piano, and other accoutrements of high Victorian interior decoration. In pencil on reverse: 'The Lyric Club'. The cutting is 12 cm and forty-five lines long. It begins 'The new Lyric Club is starting on its career with every propsect of a brilliant success. Two or three years ago it stood alone among musical and artistic clubs, but the taste for smoking concerts and social gatherings of an informal nature has rapidly developed of late, and the entire reconstitution of the Lyric shows that the committee are determined not to be behind the times. In addition to the fine building in Piccadilly East, which will shortly be open, there is a summer club-house in Barnes, and here the first entertainment of the season was held on Sunday afternoon and evening.'