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Caricature
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Caricature
- Place of origin:
Stoke-on-Trent, England (made)
- Date:
25 June 1904 (drawn)
- Artist/Maker:
Cooke, George (artist)
- Materials and Techniques:
Pen and ink and wash on paper
- Museum number:
S.392:3-2002
- Gallery location:
In Storage
This caricature is of the music hall singer and character comedian Pat Carey. He was performing at Collins’ Hippodrome, Stoke-on-Trent, during the week of 20 June 1904, when he was on the bill with John Lawson. It is one of the many superb caricatures of Edwardian music hall performers that were drawn by the artist George Cooke when he was based at the Grand Theatre of Varieties, Hanley. He compiled them in a series of albums.
Pat Carey used his nationality to make a niche for himself as an Irish act, an aspect reflected in the green coat worn here. The Scottish singer and comedian Harry Lauder also began as an Irish act, but soon reverted to his native Scottish. In 1899 Pat Carey toured with Fred Karno’s comic knockabout sketch ‘Jail Birds’. Among other venues he appeared at the Palace Theatre, Plymouth.
