Collection Summary
Beerbohm, Max1872-1956
Max Beerbohm Art Collection
1880s-1946, undated
Art Collection AR-00022
English
5 boxes, 2 oversize folders, 2 framed paintings (154 items)
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
The collection consists of 151 original works by
Beerbohm and one reproductive print. The works consist mainly of caricatures of
early twentieth century London celebrities and political figures. In addition, there
are two drawings of Beerbohm done by Sir Osbert Lancaster and by Frank
Richardson.
Acquisition:
Purchases (R307, R938, R1901, R2077, R2391, R2683, R2738, R3011, R3318, R3732, R3774,
R3890, R4228, R4903, R5180, R5331) 1960-1970
Access:
Open for research. A minimum of twenty-four hours is required to pull art materials
to the Reading Room.
Processed by:
Alice Egan, 1997, and Helen Young, 2002
Biographical Sketch
Max Beerbohm, considered by some to be the best essayist, parodist, and cartoonist of
his age, was born Henry Maximilian Beerbohm on August 24, 1872, in London, to Julius
Ewald Beerbohm and his second wife, Eliza Draper Beerbohm. His early education was
at a preparatory school in Orme Square, and then at Charterhouse. He attended Merton
College at Oxford, 1890-1894, but did not receive a degree.
While at Oxford, Beerbohm published caricatures and essays in the
Strand and other periodicals. In 1893 he became
acquainted with Sir William Rothenstein, who introduced him to Aubrey Beardsley and
other members of the literary and artistic circle connected with the Bodley Head.
Through Beerbohm's half brother, noted actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree, he
became acquainted with Oscar Wilde and his friends. By the time Beerbohm left
Oxford, he had developed his personality as a dandy and humorist.
In 1895 he traveled with Herbert Beerbohm Tree's theatrical company on a four-month
tour of American cities, working as Tree's secretary. After his return to London, he
moved in with his sisters and widowed mother. He contributed drawings and essays to
various periodicals, including the
Yellow Book, the
Savoy, and the Daily
Mail. His first book of drawings, Caricatures of
Twenty-five Gentleman, and his first literary collection, The Works of Max Beerbohm, were both published in 1896.
In 1898 he succeeded George Bernard Shaw as drama critic of the Saturday Review, a position he held until 1910.
During the years he wrote for the
Saturday Review, he
arranged four exhibitions of his drawings. In 1906 he received an assignment from
the Daily Mail to write a travel series on Italy, and
he became attracted to that country. In 1910 he married the American-born actress
Florence Kahn, resigned his position as drama critic, and moved with his wife to
Rapallo, Italy, partly as an escape from the social demands and the expense of
living in London. Except for the time during the two World Wars when they lived in
England, and occasional trips to England to take part in exhibitions of his
drawings, Max and Florence Beerbohm lived in Rapallo for the rest of their lives;
for a while, Ezra Pound was a neighbor.
Beerbohm published several collections of essays, parodies, and caricatures. In 1911,
he published his only novel,
Zuleika Dobson. His last
volume of essays, A Variety of Things, was published
in 1928. His later years were spent in retirement. In 1935 the Beerbohms traveled to
England so that Florence could appear in a revival of Peer
Gynt at the Old Vic; during this time Max created a successful series of
BBC broadcasts, London Revisited. He was knighted in
1939. After Florence's death in 1951, Beerbohm lived with his secretary, Elizabeth
Jungmann, whom he married a few weeks before his death. He died May 20, 1956, in
Rapallo, Italy.
Sources:
Cleary, Ann A.
Max Beerbohm.Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 34, British Novelists,
1820-1929: Traditionalists. Ed. Thomas F. Staley. Detroit: Gale
Research, 1984.
Dictionary of National Biography, 1951-1960. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1971.
Kirkpatrick, John O.
Max on View: an Exhibition.
Austin, Tex.: Humanities Research Center, 1978.
Scope and Contents
The Ransom Center's Max Beerbohm Art Collection is organized in two series: I. Works
by Max Beerbohm, and II. Works by Other Artists. The Works by Max Beerbohm are
arranged by accession number. The Works by Other Artists are arranged by artist.
Titles are transcribed from the items; cataloger's titles appear in brackets.
The Works by Max Beerbohm comprise most of the collection with 151 original works and
one reproductive print. Most of the works are caricatures of celebrities and
political figures who were active in London in the first part of the twentieth
century. The collection includes a group of fourteen drawings done while Beerbohm
was at school at Charterhouse, and a group of six watercolor drawings of his wife,
Frances Kahn Beerbohm. There are two paintings—
Edwardian
Parade and Literary Figures of the
Nineties—that hung in Beerbohm's home in Rapallo, Italy. The subjects of a
majority of the works were identified by Rupert Hart-Davis in 1971. An alphabetical
index of subjects is included in this finding aid.
The Works by Other Artists consists of two works: a drawing of Beerbohm by Sir Osbert
Lancaster, and a drawing of Beerbohm by Frank Richardson.
The Ransom Center's Art Collection also has a group of eleven drawings by Max
Beerbohm in its Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Collection, as well as a portrait painting of
Beerbohm by Albert Rutherston in its Albert Rutherston Collection, and portrait
drawings of Beerbohm and Florence Kahn Beerbohm by Sir William Rothenstein in its
William Rothenstein Collection. The Ransom Center also has Max Beerbohm materials in
its Manuscripts Collection (including a portfolio of drawings and sketches drawn by
Beerbohm while at Charterhouse, a caricature drawing of George Street and Beerbohm
bound into a group of manuscripts, and sketches on manuscripts), its Library, and
its Photography Collection.
Max Beerbohm Art Collection--Item List
Series I. Works by Max Beerbohm,
1880s-1946, undated
4.1
65.148
Historic Scene at 10 Adelphi Terrace [G. B. Shaw and James
Timewell, sitting facing each other].
1903.
1 drawing (ink), 25.7 x 20.4
cm.
Painting storage
65.162
Edwardian Parade [Edward VII, Marquis de Soveral, Joseph
Chamberlain, Henry James, Lord Rosebery, Reginald Turner, Arthur Wing
Pinero, William Rothenstein, George Moore, Rudyard Kipling, Lord
Burnham, and Winston Churchill].
1922.
1 painting (tempera and ink on gesso), visible image
52.3 x 124.6 cm.
Flat file
65.164.1
Willie and Oscar Wilde.
1926.
1 drawing (watercolor and ink), 39.8 x 29.5
cm.
Flat file
65.164.2
Oscar and Willie Wilde.
1926.
1 drawing (watercolor and ink), 39.8 x 29.2
cm.
Painting storage
65.170
Literary Figures of the Nineties [E. Ray Lankester, Edmund Gosse,
Edward Carson, E. Gordon Craig, R. B. Cunninghame Graham, Philip Wilson
Steer, Henry Tonks, John Davidson, Bernard Shaw, G. K. Chesterton, John
Masefield, Lytton Strachey, Herbert Asquith, J. S. Sargent, John
Galsworthy, Charles Conder, Henry Chaplin, William Nicholson, Arthur
Balfour, Charles Boyd, G. S. Street].
Circa 1922.
1 painting (tempera and ink on gesso on canvas),
visible image 103.7 x 120.2 cm.
1.1
65.211
Mark Twain [standing, holding cigar].
1908.
1 drawing (ink wash and pencil), 21.3 x 16.3
cm.
1.2
65.224.1
[Augustus John, full-length standing figure].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), 39.1 x 22.5
cm.
1.3
65.224.2a
Mr. William Toynbee and Mr. G. S. Street deploring the twentieth
and the latter part of the nineteenth century [two men standing facing
each other].
1908.
1 drawing (ink, watercolor, ink wash, and pencil),
30.5 x 20 cm.
1.4
65.224.2b
[William Toynbee and G. S. Street; two men standing facing each
other].
1908?
1 drawing (pencil), 32.2 x 19.9
cm.
1.5
65.224.2c
[William Toynbee and G. S. Street; two men standing facing each
other].
1908?
1 drawing (ink and wash), 30.8 x 20.6
cm.
4.2
65.224.3
[Harley Granville Barker and William Archer; man standing,
pulling on cape of other man holding satchel].
Undated.
1 drawing (crayon), 44.1 x 40.5
cm.
1.6
65.224.4
[Clyde Fitch, full-length figure].
Undated.
1 drawing (ink), 15.1 x 10 cm.
1.7
65.224.5
[Sir Francis Carruthers Gould, profile of man holding cigarette].
Undated.
1 drawing (ink), 17.6 x 11.2
cm.
1.8
65.224.6
Venice [two men and one woman in profile, walking on street
beside canal].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), 25.4 x 35.5
cm.
1.9
65.224.7
The cost of living is less in
America [Henry Chaplin and unidentified woman; man and woman
standing].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), 32 x 21.2
cm.
1.10
65.224.8
[Count Mensdorff (2 sketches), Count Benckendorff; Marquis de
Soveral (2 sketches), Henry Irving(?)].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), 28.9 x 44.4
cm.
1.11
65.224.9
[George Wyndham and Professor Walter Raleigh; three-quarter
length figures].
Undated.
1 drawing (ink, wash, conté crayon, and watercolor),
41.9 x 33.2 cm.
1.12
65.224.10
[Statues on pedestals of W. R. Sickert(?), Hall Caine, George
Moore, and Marquis de Soveral(?) in large room].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), 28.3 x 42.5
cm.
1.13
65.224.11
[Alfred Sutro, full-length figure].
Undated.
1 drawing (ink), 11.3 x 17.5
cm.
5.1
65.224.12
[Twenty-two rough caricature sketches of heads; George Bernard
Shaw and unidentified subjects].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), irreg. image 38.8 x 56
cm.
5.2
65.224.13
[Eleven rough caricature sketches; Lord Lansdowne and
unidentified subjects].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), 38.7 x 55.4
cm.
5.3
65.244.14
[Sir Charles Wyndham defying Time: preliminary sketch of man with
outstretched arms].
Undated.
1 drawing (crayon), 38.1 x 55.5
cm.
1.14
65.224.15
[Bust portrait of man with red hair].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon and watercolor),
19.6 x 15.6 cm.
1.15
65.224.16
[Two sketches of same standing man in profile, nine sketches of
men's heads].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon and watercolor),
28.1 x 29.6 cm.
1.16
65.224.17
[Frank Richardson, full-length figure and three sketches of head;
eight sketches of heads of unidentified subjects].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), 35.5 x 25.2
cm.
1.17
65.224.18
[Rufus Isaacs, Herbert Henry Asquith, Sir Thomas Lipton, the King
of Italy, sketches of four heads of unidentified subjects on both
sides].
1901.
1 drawing (ink), 32.1 x 20.1
cm.
1.18
65.224.19
[Two men (plump, bald man--same as in 65.224.27--and thin man
wearing top hat) seated on long sofa; 3 sketches of Alfred Sutro's
head].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon and watercolor),
24.6 x 34 cm.
4.3
65.224.20
[Major-General J. P. Brabazon in profile, with walking stick,
holding up hand mirror; two sketches of Lord Rosebery's head; Sir
Winston Churchill; fourteen rough head sketches of unidentified men].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon and pencil), 39.4
x 42.5 cm.
1.19
65.224.21
[Unidentified man wearing overcoat, leaning forward].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), 32.1 x 18.9
cm.
1.20
65.224.22
[Lord Lonsdale; four head sketches of Major-General J. P.
Brabazon; four head sketches of three unidentified men].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), 35.5 x 25.4
cm.
5.4
65.224.23
[Twenty-three sketches of heads and figures of various men,
including Lord Curzon, Lord Hugh Cecil, Winston Churchill, Maurice
Baring, Arthur Balfour, Marquis Luis de Soveral, and unidentified
subjects].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon and pencil), 38.5
x 56 cm.
1.21
65.224.24
[Gerald du Maurier standing, rear view; Charles Frohman wearing
bowler hat and overcoat].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), 35.5 x 38.4
cm.
1.22
65.224.25
[Second Duke of Westminster, standing wearing bowler hat and
overcoat, smoking cigar; small sketch of man on horseback].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), 33.3 x 42
cm.
4.4
65.224.26
[Fifteen sketches of various men, including George Bernard Shaw,
Arthur Wing Pinero, Alfred Sutro, and Marquis Luis de Soveral, on both
sides of sheet].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), 38.5 x 56
cm.
1.23
65.224.27
[Unidentified man seated on long sofa, wearing robe; see also 65.224.19].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), irreg. image
36.7 x 30.6 cm.
1.24
65.224.28
[William Nicholson, three-quarter length figure; twelve sketches
of heads of unidentified men].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), 35.5 x 25.4
cm.
1.25
65.224.29
[Lord Lurgan, standing, wearing bowler hat].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), 35.5 x 25.4
cm.
1.26
65.224.30
[Mario Sammarco, standing with arms folded].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), 32 x 20
cm.
1.27
65.224.31
[John Davidson, standing on globe, juggling Saturn, star, moon,
sun].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), 35.5 x 25.4
cm.
1.28
65.224.32
[C. P. Little, full-length profile, wearing top hat, walking
stick hooked over arm; verso: ms. notes].
1908?
1 drawing (pencil), 33.3 x 21
cm.
1.29
65.224.33
[William Nicholson (eight sketches) and Herbert P. Horne (profile
of head)].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), 35.3 x 25.4
cm.
1.30
65.224.34
[Sketches of ten heads, including Henry James, William Nicholson,
Count Benckendorff, and Rufus Isaacs].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), 25.4 x 26
cm.
1.31
65.224.35
[Sketches of twenty-nine heads, including Gordon Craig, Henrik
Ibsen, George Bernard Shaw, Viscount Haldane, Marquess of Lansdowne, and
John Singer Sargent].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), 35.5 x 25.4
cm.
5.5
65.224.36
[Two sketches of John Singer Sargent looking out of window;
sketches of heads of various men, including Winston Churchill, Charles
Frohman, and unidentified subjects].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), 37.7 x 56
cm.
1.32
65.224.37
[Lord Howard de Walden, wearing tuxedo and smoking pipe].
Undated.
1 drawing (ink wash and watercolor), 31.2 x 19
cm.
1.33
65.224.38
[Unidentified seated man wearing suit, surrounded by sketches of
nine other figures].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil, ink wash, and watercolor), 29 x
24.5 cm.
1.34
65.224.39
[Sketches of seven heads, including John Davidson, Edmund Davis,
and unidentified men].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), 35.5 x 25.4
cm.
1.35
65.224.40
[Cockatoo and parrot; verso: cockatoo and profile of unidentified
man's head].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), 20.1 x 32
cm.
1.36
65.224.41
[Profile of unidentified man standing, twenty sketches of various
men's heads; verso: man's head].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil and conté crayon), 35.4
x 25.3 cm.
1.37
65.224.42
[Charles Frohman, three-quarter length profile].
Undated.
1 drawing (conte crayon), 38.5 x 21
cm.
1.38
65.224.43
[Unidentified man standing with hands in pockets, sketch of head;
verso: sketch of man's head].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), irreg. image
32.1 x 24.2 cm.
1.39
65.224.44
[Five sketches of men's heads, including Count Albert Mensdorff,
Francis Carruthers Gould, Earl of Chesterfield, and unidentified
subject; ms. list of caricatures for 1908 exhibition].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), 32.2 x 22.2
cm.
1.40
65.224.45
[Frank Richardson, two sketches of head profile].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), 33.4 x 25.2
cm.
1.41
65.224.46
[Augustus John, three-quarter length figure; four smaller head
sketches of John and an unidentified subject].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon, and pencil), 31.2
x 48 cm.
1.42
65.224.47
[Jacques-Emile Blanche, wearing bowler hat; two sketches of heads
of unidentified men; verso: profile of stout man].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), 35.4 x 25.3
cm.
1.43
65.224.48
Harley Granville Barker [three-quarter length figure; verso:
building with two domes].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil and conté crayon), 22.2
x 12.4 cm.
1.44
65.224.49
[Sir Maurice Holzmann, standing in front of desk, holding sheet
of paper].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil, ink wash, and watercolor), 32.1 x
20.3 cm.
1.45
65.224.50
[Count Albert Mensdorff, standing; seven sketches of unidentified
men on verso].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), 38.7 x 35.1
cm.
1.46
65.224.51
[Group of men, including Walter Sickert, Augustus John, Walter
Russell, D. S. MacColl, Roger Fry, Albert Rutherston, Philip Wilson
Steer, William Orpen, Henry Tonks, and Charles Conder].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil, ink, crayon, and watercolor), 32 x
40.4 cm.
2.1
65.224.52
[Alfred Sutro, standing profile; verso: four sketches of Sutro's
head].
Undated.
1 drawing (ink), 11.7 x 17.6
cm.
4.5
65.224.53
[Paolo Tosti at piano; group of seven men and women in background
includes Edouard de Reszke and Antonio Scotti].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), irreg. image
39.3 x 44.2 cm.
4.6
65.224.54
[Eight full-length figures, including General Sir Ian Hamilton;
ninety-nine sketches of heads, including George Bernard Shaw, Max
Beerbohm, and Alfred Sutro, on both sides of sheet].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), 77 x 51.1
cm.
5.6
65.224.55
[Twenty sketches of heads, one sketch of full-length figure,
including Robert Ross, Henry James, and Lewis Vernon Harcourt].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), 48 x 61.7
cm.
5.7
65.224.56
[Thirteen sketches of heads, including Lord Curzon and Little
Tich in mortar-board].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), irreg. image
38.5 x 36.3 cm.
5.8
65.224.57
Sir Charles Wyndham defying time [two figures with hour-glass and
sickle; verso: sketches of fifteen heads, including Gerald du Maurier
and Marquis Luis de Soveral].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), 38.1 x 56
cm.
5.9
65.224.58
[Sketches of thirteen heads, including Sir Charles Wyndham,
Granville Barker, and Edward VII?].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), 54.8 x 38
cm.
5.10
65.224.59
[Seven sketches of heads Marquis Luis de Soveral and various
unidentified men, two of which are depicted as wigged sculpture busts].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), 39 x 55
cm.
5.11
65.224.60
[Sketches of nine heads, including three of the Duke of
Westminster and Edward VII?].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon and watercolor),
38.5 x 54.8 cm.
5.12
65.244.61
[Twenty-seven sketches of heads and figures; rough sketches for
Mid-Term Tea at Mr Oscar Browning's,
including Oscar Browning, Franz-Josef of Austria-Hungary, Nicholas II of
Russia, Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Leopold II of the Belgians].
1908.
1 drawing (pencil and conté crayon), 56.2
x 38.3 cm.
2.2
65.224.62
[Second Duke of Westminster, standing wearing bowler hat and
overcoat, smoking cigar].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil and watercolor), 33.3 x 42.1
cm.
5.13
65.224.63
[Second Lord Tweedmouth, standing; Lord Spencer, standing; head
of Earl of Portsmouth].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), 55.7 x 39.5
cm.
5.14
65.224.64
[Sketches of one full-length figure and thirty heads, including
three of Lord Spencer, three of Lewis Vernon Harcourt, one of Sir Claude
Phillips, one of Lord Lansdowne, and unidentified men].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon), 47.7 x 62
cm.
Flat file
65.244.65
[Fifty-seven sketches, including Lord Lansdowne, Lord Spencer,
Henry James, the Duke of Marlborough (two), L. V. Harcourt, John
Davidson, Sir Claude Phillips, Henry Arthur Jones, J. S. Sargent, William
Rothenstein, and Sir Claude Phillips].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), 77.5 x 55.5
cm.
2.3
65.224.66
[Lord Rosebery?, full-length profile, wearing top hat].
Undated.
1 drawing (ink), 22.7 x 17.6
cm.
2.4
65.224.67
[Lord Rosebery, full-length profile with folded arms].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), 33.4 x 23.7
cm.
2.5
65.224.68
[Unidentified man crouching, wearing head-hunter(?) costume and
holding spear, in front of closed door, next to sign lettered GNEW].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil and crayon), 20.3 x 19
cm.
2.6
65.224.69
[Clyde Fitch, full-length, back view].
Undated.
1 drawing (ink), 15.6 x 9.7
cm.
2.7
65.224.70
The Kummel-Crank cutting out Mr. Peripitos [self-portrait; seated
holding glass and cigar].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), 17.9 x 11.6
cm.
2.8
65.224.71
[Sir Claude Phillips, three-quarter length profile, holding
lorgnette; verso: three sketches of unidentified men].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), 15.7 x 9.9
cm.
2.9
65.224.72
Fitch [Clyde Fitch, full-length profile].
1907.
1 drawing (ink), 15.1 x 9.9
cm.
2.10
65.224.73
[Sir Claude Phillips, three-quarter length figure; verso: six
sketches of unidentified men].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), 15.7 x 10
cm.
2.11
65.224.74
[Nine sketches, including Gerald du Maurier, Alfred Sutro, and
other unidentified men].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil and wash), irreg. image 47.6 x 18
cm.
5.15
65.224.75
[Sketches of eight heads, including George Bernard Shaw, Maurice
Hewlett, and Alfred Sutro].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil and watercolor), 38.6 x 31.6
cm.
2.12
65.224.76a
[George Bernard Shaw and A. B. Walkley, full-length, rear view,
facing espalier].
1908.
1 drawing (ink and pencil), 32.2 x 20.2
cm.
5.16
65.224.76b
[George Bernard Shaw and A. B. Walkley, full-length figures, back
view, facing espalier; verso: nine sketches of heads and full-length
figures of Lord Curzon, Arthur Bourchier, Eugen Sandow, G. R. Sims, Rev.
R. J. Campbell, Little Tich, F. C. Gould, and Max Beerbohm].
1908.
1 drawing (conté crayon), 38.6 x 36
cm.
4.7
65.224.77
[Frank Harris and William Shakespeare on stage; rough sketch for
Frank Harris Presents, frontispiece
of Harris' The Man Shakespeare... (1909)].
1909.
1 drawing (ink, pencil, and watercolor), 39 x 45.4
cm.
2.13
65.224.78
[G. K. Chesterton, seated, and unidentified man; verso: Frank
Richardson and heads of three unidentified men].
Undated.
1 drawing (pastel), 35.3 x 25.3
cm.
2.14
65.224.79
[Profile of unidentified man standing].
Undated.
1 drawing (ink and wash), 19.7 x 10.7
cm.
2.15
65.224.80
[Unidentified man, half-length].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), 33.8 x 20.7
cm.
2.16
65.224.81
[John Galsworthy, pig speaking to gentleman].
1909.
1 drawing (pencil), 26.6 x 24.8
cm.
2.17
65.224.82
[Cissy Loftus, standing with bow in hair; verso: Lord Lonsdale,
bust profile, marked through].
Circa 1894.
1 drawing (conté crayon, pastel, ink, and pencil),
30.5 x 14.3 cm.
2.18
65.224.83
Not so much difference after all, Miss Rosie Mackenzie, Miss
Christabel Pankhurst [two women, standing].
1909?
1 drawing (pencil), 27.5 x 36.2
cm.
2.19
65.224.84
[Child seated at table between two men, eating; attributed to
Beerbohm, but possibly by William Nicholson or Albert Rutherston].
Undated.
1 drawing (ink, conté crayon, and wash),
32.8 x 20.4 cm.
2.20
65.224.85
Mr. George Frampton [half-length profile].
1908.
1 drawing (pencil), 32.2 x 20
cm.
2.21
65.224.86
[Unidentified obese man seated, holding card hand; verso:
unidentified man, full-length profile].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), 22.7 x 17.7
cm.
2.22
65.224.87
Mr. Hodgkinson [Thomas Hodgkinson, three-quarter length figure].
1908.
1 drawing (ink, pencil, and crayon), 29.7 x 19.5
cm.
2.23
65.224.88
Ellis Roberts [standing profile].
Undated.
1 drawing (watercolor, conté crayon, and pencil),
32.8 x 19.7 cm.
2.24
65.224.89
Sem [Georges Marie Goursat, full-length profile].
1907.
1 drawing (conté crayon and watercolor),
26.7 x 20.8 cm.
2.25
65.224.90
[Half-length profile of unidentified man with parrot perched on
his wrist; verso: seven profile sketches].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil and watercolor), 32.1 x 20.7
cm.
2.26
65.224.91
[Lord Portsmouth, head profile; two drawings of John Morley].
Undated.
1 drawing (ink), 17.6 x 11.3
cm.
2.27
65.225.1
Duke of Westminster Divorced [Walter Sickert standing between the
Duke and Duchess of Westminster].
1919.
1 drawing (ink and watercolor), 20.1 x 32.7
cm.
2.28
65.225.2
His Majesty the King of Portugal [large full-length figure
smoking cigar, holding walking stick].
Undated.
1 drawing (ink), 30.2 x 20.2
cm.
2.29
65.225.3
[Hall Caine, full-length profile].
Undated.
1 drawing (ink), 25.1 x 19.5
cm.
2.30
65.225.4
Lord Goschen [full-length figure with folded umbrella, wearing
top hat].
Undated.
1 drawing (ink), 32.1 x 20.2
cm.
2.31
65.225.5
Sir Squire Bancroft [full-length profile, leaning on walking
stick].
Undated.
1 drawing (ink), 29.4 x 18.4
cm.
2.32
65.225.6
Richter Waltard, to Lazarus [Walter Sickert and Lazarus, without
faces, seated at table].
1929.
1 drawing (ink and watercolor), 21.3 x 28.1
cm.
2.33
65.226
Osbert Lancaster [full-length figure in front of banister,
holding cigarette].
Undated.
1 painting (watercolor and pencil), 31.9 x 24.1
cm.
4.8
65.227
After the publication, G.B.S.: What name? Ah, to be sure; and let
me tell you, Mr. Henderson … [G. B. Shaw and Archibald Henderson, two
full-length figures].
1911.
1 drawing (pencil), 40.2 x 31.5
cm.
2.34
65.228
The Centenary of Edward FitzGerald; Mr. Clement Shorter: "Here!
Don't be stand-offish, FitzGerald …" [Shorter, with outstretched arms
running towards bust of Fitzgerald].
1909?
1 drawing (pencil), 32.7 x 40.3
cm.
2.35
65.229.1
[Florence Kahn Beerbohm, full-length figure, wearing large
bonnet, sweeping with broom].
Undated.
1 drawing (conté crayon and watercolor),
35 x 22 cm.
2.36
65.229.2
[Florence Kahn Beerbohm, floating figure].
1913.
1 drawing (conté crayon and watercolor),
40 x 26.8 cm.
2.37
65.229.3
[Florence Kahn Beerbohm, standing, leaning forward, wearing large
bonnet].
1913.
1 drawing (conté crayon and watercolor),
30.8 x 24.5 cm.
2.38
65.229.4
[Florence Kahn Beerbohm, standing, holding watering can].
1913.
1 drawing (conté crayon and watercolor),
31 x 24.5 cm.
2.39
65.229.5
[Florence Kahn Beerbohm, standing, hair and apron blowing].
1913.
1 drawing (conté crayon and watercolor),
36.5 x 25.2 cm.
2.40
65.229.6
[Florence Kahn Beerbohm, seated on steps, with bowl and knife].
1913.
1 drawing (conté crayon and watercolor),
28 x 23.5 cm.
2.41
65.231
Light-headed from want of food; from a photograph showing how
cruelly they wrong him [G. B. Shaw, full-length figure].
1901.
1 drawing (ink and watercolor), 31.9 x 20
cm.
4.9
65.235
[Henry James in court scene with various figures].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), 32.1 x 40.4
cm.
3.1
65.236
Mr. Pinero: "Though it is an arguable point …" [Arthur Wing
Pinero and G. B. Shaw passing each other on street].
Undated.
1 drawing (watercolor), 33.7 x 22.7
cm.
3.2
65.269
The Editor of the Saturday Review [Frank Harris, standing,
wearing cap, holding a crop; valet and horse in background].
Circa 1898.
1 drawing (ink wash, watercolor, and pencil), 29.2 x
20.3 cm.
3.3
65.272
The Old and the Young Self [Arnold Bennett, two figures facing
each other].
1924.
1 drawing (pencil and watercolor), 30.2 x 27
cm.
3.4
65.297
Aylmer Fault--betrayer of Marguerita Tolstoi, Mephisto
Bernard--influential friend of Aylmar Faust, Valentine Max--angry
brother of Marguerita Tolstoi [Aylmer Maude, G. B. Shaw, Leo Tolstoy,
and Max Beerbohm].
Undated.
1 drawing (ink and watercolor), 32.2 x 20.3
cm.
4.10
65.395
[G. B. Shaw, full-length in 18th century costume, holding cane;
news clipping pasted on drawing: Mr. Shaw found it amusing to work up
this sketch of himself disguised in a wig and an old-world courtliness
of manner, and that settled it].
1907.
1 drawing (ink and wash), 32 x 20.4
cm.
3.5
65.428
Frank Richardson [man's head with cigarette].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), 30.3 x 22.6
cm.
4.11
66.30
Mr. Gordon Craig producing Hamlet [puppeteer standing over puppet theater on table].
1913.
1 drawing (conté crayon, pencil, and wash),
32.8 x 22 cm.
3.6
66.31.1
Mr. Alfred de Rothschild [full-length figure holding top hat and
walking stick].
Undated.
1 drawing (watercolor and crayon), 28.7 x 19.6
cm.
3.7
66.31.2
Mr. Seymour Hicks [prancing figure in profile].
Undated.
1 drawing (crayon and watercolor), 24.4 x 18.2
cm.
5.17
66.51
[Preliminary drawing for Literary Figures
of the Nineties (65.170) on grid pattern: E. Ray Lankester,
Edmund Gosse, Edward Carson, E. Gordon Craig, R. B. Cunninghame Graham,
Philip Wilson Steer, Henry Tonks, John Davidson, G. B. Shaw, G. K.
Chesterton, John Masefield, Lytton Strachey, Herbert Asquith, J. S.
Sargent, John Galsworthy, Charles Conder, Henry Chaplin, William
Nicholson, Arthur Balfour, Charles Boyd, G. S. Street].
Circa 1922.
1 drawing (pencil), 49 x 59.6
cm.
3.8
67.6
A Survivor of the Nouvelle Athenes, Mr. George Moore
[three-quarter length profile].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), 27.4 x 21.2
cm.
3.9
67.7
Mr. George Moore [full-length figure wearing large coat, holding
hat].
Undated.
1 drawing (ink wash and crayon), 29.3 x 18.2
cm.
3.10
67.8
Mr. William Archer really Conversing [seated before mirror,
wearing mask, writing on note pad, six masks on wall behind; masks are
the faces of George Alexander, Thomas Hardy, William Heinemann, Sidney
Lee, George Moore, Stephen Phillips, and A. W. Pinero].
Undated.
1 drawing (ink and wash), 32.1 x 20
cm.
3.11
67.26
George Moore [full-length, holding hat and walking stick].
Undated.
1 drawing (ink, wash, and pencil), 32.2 x 20.1
cm.
3.12
67.28
[Self-portrait; three-quarter length profile].
Undated.
1 drawing (ink and wash), 30.9 x 19.7
cm.
3.13
68.95.1
Robinson, Music Master; I assure you, it's a gem [man seated at
piano].
1880s.
1 drawing (ink and watercolor), 23.1 x 18.4
cm.
3.14
68.95.2
[Profile of standing figure with walking stick, wearing top hat;
ten other small caricature sketches on both sides of sheet].
1880s.
1 drawing (ink), 23 x 18.3
cm.
3.15
68.95.3
Wilder & assistant [two men standing behind table with
scientific apparatus].
1880s.
1 drawing (ink), 18.3 x 23
cm.
3.16
68.95.4
Lord Halsbury, Mr. Goschun, Lord Granville, Sir W. Harcourt, Lord
G. Hamilton, Mr. Ritchie, Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett, Mr. W. H. Smith, Mr.
Balfour [13 caricatures].
1880s.
1 drawing (ink), 22.9 x 18
cm.
3.17
68.95.5
[Large man with hat; three other rough caricature sketches on
sheet].
1880s.
1 drawing (ink), 18.5 x 23
cm.
3.18
68.95.6
Cabinet ministers [group of nine figures; verso: rough caricature
sketch].
1880s.
1 drawing (ink), 22.7 x 10.1
cm.
3.19
68.95.7
[Reverend William Haig-Brown, sketches entitled: Nil desperandum,Humph! Humph,A new pupil,Call over,The school-master abroad].
1880s.
1 drawing (ink), 22.9 x 18.3
cm.
3.20
68.95.8
[Profile of man seated at desk, pointing finger].
1880s.
1 drawing (ink), 22.9 x 18.3
cm.
3.21
68.95.9
[Self-caricature, three-quarter length profile; five rough
caricatures of other subjects].
1880s.
1 drawing (ink and pencil), 15 x 11.3
cm.
3.22
68.95.10
[Man leaning against desk].
1880s.
1 drawing (ink), 23.1 x 18.1
cm.
3.23
68.95.11
Randolph [man in overcoat standing, holding top hat and walking
stick; six other rough caricature sketches].
1880s.
1 drawing (ink), 22.9 x 18.1
cm.
3.24
68.95.12
[Profile of man standing, reading book].
1880s.
1 drawing (ink), 22.9 x 18.3
cm.
3.25
68.95.13
[Man carrying briefcase, running].
1880s.
1 drawing (ink), 22.9 x 18.6
cm.
3.26
68.95.14
Parvenu [man standing, with arms half raised and wrists bent].
1880s.
1 drawing (ink), 22.9 x 18.8
cm.
4.12
69.45
The Old Diner-Out. A Memory [Henry James, full-length figure].
1926.
1 drawing (conté crayon and watercolor),
37 x 23.7 cm.
Flat file
69.102.2
Mr. Shaw's Apotheosis is one of the Wonders of the Age [G. B.
Shaw].
1924.
1 drawing (pencil and watercolor), 31.8 x 40.1 cm.
4.13
69.129
Popular notion of Bernard Shaw since marriage [standing figure
smoking cigar].
Undated.
1 drawing (ink, wash, and crayon), 31.9 x 19.9
cm.
3.27
70.38
Typical of almost any club nowadays [profile of walking man,
smoking cigarette, wearing hat and coat, carrying briefcase].
1946.
1 drawing (pencil and watercolor), 30.6 x 19.7 cm.
5.18
70.41
A Memory of Henry James and Jos. Conrad conversing at an
afternoon party. Circa 1904.
1926.
1 drawing (pencil and color wash), 42.3 x 20.5
cm.
3.28
70.65
Frank Harris [full-length figure].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil, wash, and watercolor), 22.3 x 19.2
cm.
3.29
74.64
Mr. H. G. Wells [full-length figure].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil and wash), 20.2 x 30.4
cm.
3.30
77.16
Mr. Siegfried Sassoon [full-length figure].
1931.
1 reproductive print, 30.2 x 19.6
cm.
3.31
80.56
A Roman Memory [profile of walking man, smoking cigar, holding
walking stick].
1936.
1 drawing (pencil and watercolor), 17.6 x 11.6
cm.
Series II. Works by Other Artists,
undated
4.14
65.226
Lancaster, Osbert. [Max Beerbohm:
full-length figure in front of banister, holding cigarette].
Undated.
1 painting (watercolor and pencil), 31.9 x 24.1
cm.
4.15
65.428
Richardson, Frank. Max [man's head with
cigarette].
Undated.
1 drawing (pencil), 30.3 x 22.6
cm.
Max Beerbohm Art Collection--Index of Subjects
- Alexander, George, Sir, 1858-1918--67.8
- Archer, William, 1856-1924--65.224.3; 67.8
- Ashmead-Bartlett, Ellis, 1881-1931--68.95.4
- Asquith, H. H. (Herbert Henry), 1852-1928--65.170;
65.224.18; 66.51
- Balfour, Arthur James Balfour, Earl of, 1848-1930--65.170;
65.224.23; 66.51; 68.95.4
- Bancroft, Squire, 1841-1926--65.225.5
- Baring, Maurice, 1874-1945--65.224.23
- Beerbohm, Florence Kahn, 1876-1951--65.229.1-6
- Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956--65.224.54; 65.224.70;
65.224.76b; 65.297; 67.28; 68.95.9
- Benckendorff, Alexander, Count de, 1849-1917--65.224.8;
65.224.34
- Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931--65.272
- Blanche, Jacques-Emile, 1861-1942--65.224.47
- Bourchier, Arthur, 1863-1927--65.224.76b
- Boyd, C. W. (Charles Walter), b. 1869--65.170; 66.51
- Brabazon, J. P., 1843-1922--65.224.20; 65.224.22
- Brown, William Haig, 1823-1907--68.95.7
- Browning, Oscar, 1837-1923--65.224.61
- Burnham, Edward Levy-Lawson, 1833-1916--65.162
- Caine, Hall, Sir, 1853-1931--65.224.10; 65.225.3
- Campbell, R. J. (Reginald John), 1867-1956--65.224.76b
- Carson, Edward Henry Carson, Baron, 1854-1935--65.170;
66.51
- Cecil, Hugh Richard Heathcote, Lord, b. 1869--65.224.23
- Chamberlain, Joseph, 1836-1914--65.162
- Chaplin, Henry Chaplin, Viscount, 1841-1923--65.170;
65.224.7; 66.51
- Chesterfield, Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope, Earl of,
1854-1933--65.224.44
- Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936--65.170;
65.224.78; 66.51
- Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965--65.162; 65.224.20;
65.224.23; 65.224.36
- Conder, Charles Edward, 1868-1909--65.170; 65.224.51; 66.51
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924--70.41
- Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872-1966--65.170; 65.224.35; 66.30;
66.51
- Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine),
1852-1936--65.170; 66.51
- Curzon, George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquis of,
1859-1925--65.224.23; 65.224.56; 65.224.76b
- Davidson, John, 1857-1909--65.170; 65.224.31; 65.224.39;
65.224.65; 66.51
- Davis, Edmund Gabriel, Sir, 1862-1939--65.224.39
- Du Maurier, Gerald, Sir, 1873-1934--65.224.24; 65.224.74
- Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841-1910--65.162;
65.224.58; 65.224.60
- Fitch, Clyde, 1865-1909--65.224.4; 65.224.69; 65.224.72
- FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883--65.228
- Frampton, George, 1860-1923--65.224.85
- Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, 1830-1916--65.224.61
- Frohman, Charles, 1860-1915--65.224.24; 65.224.36;
65.224.42
- Fry, Roger Eliot, 1866-1934--65.224.51
- Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933--65.170; 65.224.81; 66.51
- Goschen, George Joachim Goschen, Viscount,
1831-1907--65.225.4; 68.95.4
- Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928--65.170; 66.51
- Gould, F. Carruthers (Francis Carruthers),
1844-1925--65.224.5; 65.224.44; 65.224.76b
- Granville, Granville George Leveson-Gower, Earl,
1815-1891--68.95.4
- Granville-Barker, Harley, 1877-1946--65.224.3; 65.224.48;
65.224.58
- Haldane, R. B. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane), Viscount,
1856-1928--65.224.35
- Halsbury, Hardinge Stanley Giffard, Earl of,
1823-1921--68.95.4
- Hamilton, G.--68.95.4
- Hamilton, Ian, Sir, 1853-1947--65.224.54
- Harcourt, Lewis Harcourt, Viscount, 1863- --65.224.55;
65.224.64-65
- Harcourt, William Vernon, Sir, 1827-1904--68.95.4
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928--67.8
- Harris, Frank, 1855-1931--65.224.77; 65.269; 70.65
- Heinemann, William, 1863-1920--67.8
- Henderson, Archibald, 1877-1963--65.227
- Hewlett, Maurice Henry, 1861-1923--65.224.75
- Hicks, Seymour, Sir, 1871-1949--66.31.2
- Hodgkinson, Thomas, d. 1933--65.224.87
- Holzmann, Maurice, Sir, 1835-1909--65.224.49
- Horne, Herbert Percy, 1864-1916--65.224.33
- Howard de Walden, Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, Baron, b.
1880--65.224.37
- Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906--65.224.35
- Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905--65.224.8
- James, Henry, 1843-1916--65.162; 65.224.34; 65.224.55;
65.224.65; 65.235; 69.45; 70.41
- John, Augustus, 1878-1961--65.224.1; 65.224.46; 65.224.51
- Jones, Henry Arthur, 1851-1929--65.224.65
- Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936--65.162
- Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929--65.170;
66.51
- Lansdowne, Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice, Marquess of,
1845-1927--65.224.13; 65.224.35; 65.224.64-65
- Lee, Sidney, Sir, 1859-1926--67.8
- Leopold II, King of the Belgians, 1835-1909--65.224.61
- Lipton, Thomas Johnstone, Sir, 1850-1931--65.224.18
- Little Tich, 1867-1928--65.224.56; 65.224.76b
- Little, C. P., 1856-1914--65.224.32
- Loftus, Cecilia, 1876-1943--65.224.82
- Lonsdale, Hugh Cecil Lowther, Earl of,
1857-1944--65.224.22; 65.224.82
- Lurgan, William Brownlow, Baron, 1858-1937--65.224.29
- MacColl, D. S. (Dugald Sutherland), 1859-1948--65.224.51
- Marlborough, Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, Duke of,
1871-1934--65.224.65
- Manuel II, King of Portugal, 1889-1932--65.225.2
- Masefield, John, 1878-1967--65.170; 66.51
- Maude, Aylmer, 1858-1938--65.297
- Mensdorff, Albert, Count, 1861-1945--65.224.8; 65.224.44;
65.224.50
- Moore, George, 1852-1933--65.162; 65.224.10; 67.6-8; 67.26
- Morley, John, 1838-1923--65.224.91
- Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918--65.224.61
- Nicholson, William, Sir, 1872-1949--65.170; 65.224.28;
65.224.33-34; 66.51
- Orpen, William, Sir, 1878-1931--65.224.51
- Pankhurst, Christabel, Dame, 1880-1958--65.224.83
- Phillips, Claude, Sir, 1848-1924--65.224.64-65;
65.224.71; 65.224.73
- Phillips, Stephen, 1868-1915--67.8
- Pinero, Arthur Wing, Sir, 1855-1934--65.162; 65.224.26;
65.236; 67.8
- Portsmouth, Newton Wallop, Earl, 1856-1917--65.224.63;
65.224.91
- Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir, 1861-1922--65.224.9
- Randolph--68.95.11
- Reading, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Marquess of,
1860-1935--65.224.18; 65.224.34
- Reszke, Edouard de, 1853-1917--65.224.53
- Richardson, Frank (Frank Collins), 1870-1917--65.224.17;
65.224.45
- Ritchie, Mr.--68.95.4
- Roberts, R. Ellis (Richard Ellis), 1879-1953--65.224.88
- Robinson, G. H.--68.95.1
- Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of,
1847-1929--65.162; 65.224.20; 65.224.66-67
- Ross, Robert Baldwin, 1869-1918--65.224.55
- Rothenstein, William, Sir, 1872-1945--65.162; 65.224.65
- Rothschild, Alfred Charles de--66.31.1
- Russell, Walter, 1867-1949--65.224.51
- Rutherston, Albert Daniel, 1881-1953--65.224.51
- Sammarco, Mario, 1873-1930--65.224.30
- Sandow, Eugen, 1867-1925--65.224.76b
- Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925--65.170; 65.224.35-36; 65.224.65; 66.51
- Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967--77.16
- Scotti, Antonio, 1866-1936--65.224.53
- Sem, 1863-1934--65.224.89
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--65.224.77
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950--65.148; 65.170; 65.224.12;
65.224.26; 65.224.35; 65.224.54; 65.224.75; 65.224.76a-b; 65.227; 65.231;
65.236; 65.297; 65.395; 66.51; 69.102.2; 69.129
- Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926--65.228
- Sickert, Walter, 1860-1942--65.224.10; 65.224.51; 65.225.1;
65.225.6
- Sims, George Robert, 1847-1922--65.224.76b
- Smith, W. H.--68.95.4
- Soveral, Luis de, Marquis, 1862-1922--65.162; 65.224.8;
65.224.10; 65.224.23; 65.224.26; 65.224.59
- Spencer, Charles Robert, Earl, 1857-1922--65.224.63-65
- Steer, Philip Wilson, 1860-1942--65.170; 65.224.51; 66.51
- Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932--65.170; 66.51
- Street, G. S. (George Slythe), 1867-1936--65.170;
65.224.2a-c; 66.51
- Sutro, Alfred, 1863-1933--65.224.11; 65.224.19; 65.224.26;
65.224.52; 65.224.54; 65.224.74-75
- Timewell, James, 1857-1926--65.148
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910--65.297
- Tonks, Henry, 1862-1937--65.170; 65.224.51; 66.51
- Tosti, F. Paolo (Francesco Paolo), 1846-1916--65.224.53
- Toynbee, William, 1849- --65.224.2a-c
- Turner, Reggie, 1869?-1938--65.162
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--65.211
- Tweedmouth, Edward Marjoribanks, Baron,
1849-1909--65.224.63
- Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy, 1869-1947--65.224.18;
65.224.61
- Walkley, Arthur Bingham, 1855-1926--65.224.76a-b
- Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946--74.64
- Westminster, Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, Duke of,
1879-1953--65.224.25; 65.224.60; 65.224.62; 65.225.1
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900--65.164
- Wilde, William, 1852-1899--65.164
- Wilder--68.95.3
- Wyndham, Charles, 1837-1919--65.224.14; 65.224.57-58
- Wyndham, George, 1863-1913--65.224.9