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A Book of Caricatures

1907
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Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: A Book of Caricatures
  • Artist: Max Beerbohm (British, London 1872–1956 Rapallo)
  • Sitter: Winston Churchill (British, 1874–1965)
  • Sitter: Gilbert Keith Chesterton (British, London 1874–1936 Beaconsfield)
  • Sitter: H. G. Wells (British, Bromley, Kent 1866–1946 London)
  • Sitter: Henry James (American, 1843–1916)
  • Sitter: Hilaire Belloc (British (born France), La Celle-Saint-Cloud 1870–1953 Guildford, Surrey)
  • Sitter: John Davidson (British, Barrhead, Renfrewshire, Scotland 1857–1909 Cornwall)
  • Sitter: John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856–1925 London)
  • Sitter: Lord de Gray (British, late 19th–20th century)
  • Sitter: Walter Richard Sickert (British, Munich 1860–1942 Bathampton, Somerset)
  • Sitter: George Moore (Irish, County Mayo 1852–1933 London)
  • Sitter: Lytton Strachey (British, 1880–1932)
  • Sitter: Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgian, Ghent 1862–1949 Nice)
  • Sitter: Philip Wilson Steer (British, Birkenhead 1860–1942 London)
  • Sitter: George Bernard Shaw (Irish, Dublin 1856–1950 Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire (?))
  • Sitter: Sir Edmund William Gosse (British, Hackney, Middlesex 1849–1928 London)
  • Sitter: William Nicholson (British, Newark-on-Trent 1872–1949 Berkshire)
  • Sitter: Arthur Balfour (British, 1848–1930)
  • Sitter: Jacques-Emile Blanche (French, Paris 1861–1942)
  • Date: 1907
  • Medium: Illustrations: reproductions of drawings
  • Dimensions: 15 3/16 x 11 1/8 x 1 3/4 in. (38.5 x 28.3 x 4.5cm)
  • Classification: Books
  • Credit Line: Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Edward Robinson, 1952
  • Object Number: 52.549.9
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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