"THE REACTION TOWARDS A MORE JUDICIAL METHOD OF CRITICISM" [caption title. Original drawing].
Beerbohm, Max:
[Np]. 1920. Landscape format (22 x 27 cm), pencil and ink wash on paper. Matted and framed under glass. Very, very slight toning to paper, but in visible fine condition (not examined out of frame). With exhibition label retained on verso. A fine caricature by Beerbohm, signed by the artist, "Max 1920." The image was published in A SURVEY in 1921, and exhibited at the Leicester Galleries in May of 1921, where it was purchased (according to the retained LG label) by poet John Drinkwater. The caricature shows an Elder Critic and a Younger Critic, standing image left of a table, on which is a barrister's wig on a stand. In addition to the caption title, the text reads: "Elder Critic: 'And what is that - er - rather peculiar object? ' Younger Critic: 'My hat, sir.'" A variant, perhaps preliminary, version is in the Clark Library, with the figures reversed, unsigned, and with the caption partially torn away. HART-DAVIS 1989.
(Item ID: WRCLIT60838) $6,500.00