Caricature
December 1904 (drawn)
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This caricature is of the comedian Edwin Boyde performing the sketch ‘Bread and Jam’ at the Grand Theatre of Varieties, Hanley, during the week of 12 December 1904. He was billed enthusiastically as ‘London’s Greatest Comedian’. From all the principal London music halls’. This 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. He compiled them in a series of albums.
Boyde had topped the bill at the Grand the previous February, when his act went down very well. His comic ‘ditty’ based on the breakfast table and his slapstick sketch about an old man in a lodging house, who holds a big slab of bread and jam, into which he is pushed face down by fellow lodgers, were particularly popular. Cooke features Boyde again in the frontispiece illustration to this album of caricatures. Boyde was popular at Hanley, returning in October 1905 and 1906. He died in October 1909, aged 39.
Boyde had topped the bill at the Grand the previous February, when his act went down very well. His comic ‘ditty’ based on the breakfast table and his slapstick sketch about an old man in a lodging house, who holds a big slab of bread and jam, into which he is pushed face down by fellow lodgers, were particularly popular. Cooke features Boyde again in the frontispiece illustration to this album of caricatures. Boyde was popular at Hanley, returning in October 1905 and 1906. He died in October 1909, aged 39.
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| Materials and techniques | Pen and ink and wash on paper |
| Brief description | Caricature of Edwin Boyde (died 1909), from an album of caricatures drawn by George Cooke. December 1904. |
| Physical description | Pen, ink and wash caricature on pink paper of Edwin Boyde, full-length, sitting on an enormous overturned jam pot which is spilling its contents on the floor. He holds a large slice of bread and jam in his right hand. |
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| Object history | This caricature is of the comedian Edwin Boyde (died October 1909, aged 39), performing at the Grand Theatre of Varieties, Hanley in December 1904. Boyde appeared on the bill at Hanley again in October 1905 and 1906, and a review of his 1905 performance mentions this sketch Bread and Jam in which he played an old man holding a slab of bread and jam, into which he is pushed face down by fellow lodgers in a boarding house.The caricature comes from the first of several albums compiled by the graphic artist George Cooke, featuring performers working in music hall in the early 20th century. The album is dated 1903-4-5. |
| Summary | This caricature is of the comedian Edwin Boyde performing the sketch ‘Bread and Jam’ at the Grand Theatre of Varieties, Hanley, during the week of 12 December 1904. He was billed enthusiastically as ‘London’s Greatest Comedian’. From all the principal London music halls’. This 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. He compiled them in a series of albums. Boyde had topped the bill at the Grand the previous February, when his act went down very well. His comic ‘ditty’ based on the breakfast table and his slapstick sketch about an old man in a lodging house, who holds a big slab of bread and jam, into which he is pushed face down by fellow lodgers, were particularly popular. Cooke features Boyde again in the frontispiece illustration to this album of caricatures. Boyde was popular at Hanley, returning in October 1905 and 1906. He died in October 1909, aged 39. |
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| Accession number | S.392:38-2002 |
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| Record created | November 27, 2003 |
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