Lot Essay
Sold with a letter of authentification from Sir Rupert Hart-Davis, dated 30 Nov. 1968
ANOTHER PROPERTY
Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)
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Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)
A Loathsome Proposal
indistinctly signed and dated lower rightMax 1911 inscribed faintly lower centre A Loathsome Proposal Wm. Archer (Secretary of the Reformed Spelling League): "I want to rip you up, and hack you about and then stitch you together again, on an entirely new system." The Muse of the English Language "Oh. May I ask why?" Wm. Archer "To please Mr Andrew Carnegie.", signed again and inscribed on a label attached to the backboard A Loathsome Proposal Max Beerbohm 48 Upper Berkeley St, W.1., pen, black ink and watercolour
15¾ x 11¾in. (40 x 29.8cm.)
A Loathsome Proposal
indistinctly signed and dated lower rightMax 1911 inscribed faintly lower centre A Loathsome Proposal Wm. Archer (Secretary of the Reformed Spelling League): "I want to rip you up, and hack you about and then stitch you together again, on an entirely new system." The Muse of the English Language "Oh. May I ask why?" Wm. Archer "To please Mr Andrew Carnegie.", signed again and inscribed on a label attached to the backboard A Loathsome Proposal Max Beerbohm 48 Upper Berkeley St, W.1., pen, black ink and watercolour
15¾ x 11¾in. (40 x 29.8cm.)
Literature
M. Beerbohm, Fifty Caricatures, London, 1913 (illustrated)
R. Hart-Davis, A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm, London, 1972, no.32
R. Hart-Davis, A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm, London, 1972, no.32
Exhibited
London, N.E.A.C., Winter, 1911, no.245
London, Leicester Galleries, Cartoons by Max Beerbohm, April 1913, no.39
London, Leicester Galleries, Max in Retrospect, May 1952, no.18
London, Leicester Galleries, Cartoons by Max Beerbohm, April 1913, no.39
London, Leicester Galleries, Max in Retrospect, May 1952, no.18