ORIGINAL SKETCHES SENT AS A REPLY TO A LETTER BEERBOHM (Sir H. Max, 1872-1956, Humorist & Caricaturist)

Page of five pencil caricature sketches on the blank last sheet of an Autograph Letter from Ethell STYAN in which she asks him if he "could do a drawing for me to give Lord Howard de Walden for a wedding present. I can think of nothing more suitable nor applicable to him that that - but I can't afford more than ten guineas for it. Can that be done? Sickert would approve this frank & brutal bargain. I do hope you are going to give us some more of Julenka's exploits. She has been refreshing. Lord Howard is to be married on the 20th inst. I have left it till late of course ...", on the verso of the 3rd side are 5 sketches of heads of men, mostly with rather prominent noses in caricature expressions, 4 sides 8vo., in total, 30 South Street Mayfair headed paper, 11th February

Walter SICKERT (1860-1942, Artist) did a caricature of Beerbohm for Vanity Fair in 1897.
Thomas Evelyn SCOTT-ELLIS (8th Baron Howard de Walden, 1850-1946) was an English Peer, Landowner, Writer and Patron of the Arts. He married Margherita Dorothey van Raalte (1890-1974) in 1912 and they had six children.

Item Date:  1912

Stock No:  41551      £975

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