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Lord Rosebery
Maker
(artist)
1872-1956
1872-1956
Title
Lord Rosebery
Date of Production
(circa) 1897
Medium
graphite, watercolour, pen and black ink on paper laid down on a historic mount
Dimensions
Height: 19.5 cm
Width: 32 cm
Width: 32 cm
Accession Number
D.1935.SC.71
Mode of Acquisition
Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1935
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
© The Estate of Max Beerbohm
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Label Text
Lord Rosebery is reputed to have said that he had three aims in life: to win the Derby, to marry an heiress, and to become Liberal Prime Minister. He managed all three, succeeding William Gladstone as Prime Minister in March 1894. In the course of his 15-month premiership, Lord Rosebery suffered from insomnia and exhaustion. Max Beerbohm - wit, writer and aesthete - portrays him languishing on a pink sofa in a dandified manner.
Provenance
Leicester Galleries; purchased there by Samuel Courtauld, London (1876-1947), n.d.; Courtauld Gift 1935
Exhibition History
Special Display - Characters and Caricatures, Late Victorian Illustration, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 10/02/2011-08/06/2011
Literature
Cooper, Douglas, The Courtauld Collection, London 1954
no. 158
no. 158
Inscriptions
Watermark: unable to check as is laid down.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, lower right corner, black ink, described and signed: "Lord Rosebery / ploughing his / own furrow / - in his own / sofa- / Max". Mount (historic), Recto: lower left, graphite, acc. no.: “71-35”; lower right corner, graphite, modern: “(158)”.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, lower right corner, black ink, described and signed: "Lord Rosebery / ploughing his / own furrow / - in his own / sofa- / Max". Mount (historic), Recto: lower left, graphite, acc. no.: “71-35”; lower right corner, graphite, modern: “(158)”.
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