Sir Max Beerbohm

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Sir Max Beerbohm
let justice be done
signed, titled and inscribed Mr Clement Shorter (to Mr Alexander Nelson Hood): "And so you're the Duke of Brontë! Now do, like a good fellow, go and pull a wire or two at Court, and get Lottie and Em and Annie made Duchesses in retrospect!"
pencil, ink wash and watercolour
39 by 28cm.; 15½ by 11in.

London, The Leicester Galleries, 1925

Clement Shorter (1858-1925) was author of 'The Brontë's Life and Letters', published in 1908.