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Lord Rosebery

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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)”.

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