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The Poets' Corner

Print
1904 (published)
Artist/Maker
William Heinemann (publisher)
Beerbohm, Max (Sir) (artist)
Place of origin
London (published)

Twenty caricatures of poets and their coteries including Omar Khayyam, Robert Browning, Goethe, Matthew Arnold, Henrik Ibsen, Charles Algernon Swinburne, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, Austin Dobson, Edmund Gosse, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, W. B. Yeats, Alfred Tennyson, and Rudyard Kipling.

Object details

Categories
Caricatures & Cartoons
Prints
Object type
Print
TitleThe Poets' Corner (series title)
Materials and techniques
Colour process engravings
Process Engraving
Brief description
Volume of caricatures (20) of poets and their coteries by Sir Max Beerbohm. Colour process engravings published by William Heinemann Ltd., 1904.
Physical description
Twenty caricatures of poets and their coteries including Omar Khayyam, Robert Browning, Goethe, Matthew Arnold, Henrik Ibsen, Charles Algernon Swinburne, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, Austin Dobson, Edmund Gosse, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, W. B. Yeats, Alfred Tennyson, and Rudyard Kipling.
Dimensions
  • Size of volume height: 37.5cm
  • Size of volume width: 28cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959. London: HMSO, 1964.
Credit line
Given by the Misses G. L. T. and L. J. D. Griffith
Subject depicted
Poet
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959 . London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.786-1959

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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