The Member For Gravesend Mr W W Jacobs (to Sir Gilbert Parker): 'It's No Sort of Use Talking to Them About the Unity and Integrity of the Empire. All They Want Is That You Should Sit Down On Your Hat and Stand Rum All Round.'

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The Member For Gravesend Mr W W Jacobs (to Sir Gilbert Parker): 'It's No Sort of Use Talking to Them About the Unity and Integrity of the Empire. All They Want Is That You Should Sit Down On Your Hat and Stand Rum All Round.'

Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)

Price

£4,500

Signed

Signed 'Max' and dated 1914

Medium

Pencil and pastel

Dimensions

14 ¾ x 12 ½ inches

Provenance

Philip Guedalla

Illustrated

Max Beerbohm, A Survey, London: Heinemann, 1921

Literature

Rupert Hart-Davis, A Catalogue of the Caricatures Of Max Beerbohm, London: Macmillan, 1972, No 800

Exhibited

'Max Beerbohm', The Leicester Galleries, May 1921; 'Exhibition of Works by Sir Max Beerbohm From The Guedalla Collection', The Leicester Galleries, September 1945; 'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1800-2013', Chris Beetles Gallery, November 2013 - January 2014, No 59

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