BEERBOHM, 'IN JOHN BULL'S SERVANTS' HALL', INK AND WATERCOLOUR, 1913

299 by 330mm., pen, watercolour and pencil, signed ‘Max’, inscribed with title and ‘(Punch, The Daily Telegraph, and The Spectator)’, and dated 1913, mounted, framed and glazed

EXHIBITED: ‘Sir Max Beerbohm. A Memorial Exhibition’, Leicester Galleries, June 1957, No 166

Rupert Hart-Davis, A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm (London, 1972) no 1974

Condition described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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‘Above the mantelpiece hangs a little oleograph of John Bull. Facing it stands the house-keeper, a middle-aged, sad, smug “treasure” (the Spectator), gazed at by a very old and decrepit footman (Punch), while between them, leaning against the mantelpiece, haughtily, is the large and wildly Semitic butler (Daily Telegraph).’
(Max Beerbohm in a letter to Reggie Turner, 22 April 1913)