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Mr Arthur Cecil (Baron Stein)

Drawing
1893 (made)
Artist/Maker
Aubrey Beardsley (artist)
Place of origin
London (made)

A drawing in black ink on white paper depicting a caricature of Arthur Cecil in character as Baron Stein in B. C. Stephenson and Clement Scott's play 'Diplomacy'. The character is depicted in profile wearing a coat with fur collar and cuffs.

Object details

Categories
Drawings
Caricatures & Cartoons
Theatre
Object type
Drawing
TitleMr Arthur Cecil (Baron Stein) (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Pen and Indian ink on paper
Paper
Ink
Drawing
Brief description
Drawing by Aubrey Beardsley, 'Mr Arthur Cecil (Baron Stein)', one of a series of two caricatures of actors in character in 'Diplomacy' by B. C. Stephenson and Clement Scott, adapted from Dora by Victorien Sardou, produced at the Garrick Theatre, London, 18 February 1893, pen and Indian ink on paper, London, 1893
Physical description
A drawing in black ink on white paper depicting a caricature of Arthur Cecil in character as Baron Stein in B. C. Stephenson and Clement Scott's play 'Diplomacy'. The character is depicted in profile wearing a coat with fur collar and cuffs.
Dimensions
  • Height: 16.3cm (irregular)
  • Width: 13.3cm (irregular)
Marks and inscriptions
  • (Inscribed in pencil with notes)
  • ME / ARTHUR / CECIL / (BARON / STEIN)' (Inscribed in ink)
Credit line
Bequeathed by H. H. Harrod
Object history
Bequeathed by H. H. Harrod, 1948
Subjects depicted
Caricature
Actors
Arthur Cecil
Association
Victorien Sardou
Literary referenceDiplomacy by B. C. Stephenson and Clement Scott
Bibliographic references
  • Calloway, Stephen. Aubrey Beardsley. London: V & A Publications, 1998. 224pp, illus. ISBN: 1851772197.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, and Department of Paintings, Accessions: 1948, Volume II, Henry Herbert Harrod Bequest, London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1957
  • Linda Gertner Zatlin, Aubrey Beardsley : a catalogue raisonne. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016] 2 volumes (xxxi, [1], 519, [1] pages; xi, [1], 547, [1] pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm. ISBN: 9780300111279 The entry is as follows: 295 Mr Arthur Cecil (Baron Stein) By 22 February 1893 Victoria and Albert Museum, London (E.30-1948) Pen and Indian ink over pencil on irregularly cut white wove paper; 5 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches (133 x 133 mm). INSCRIPTIONS: Recto inscribed by artist at far right: MR / ARTHUR / CECIL / (BARON / STEIN) / [in pencil in another hand in right corner]: 3 have by / Tuesday at 5; Verso in pencil: 8567 / P.M.G. / [in ink]: E.30-1948; [stamp of] V.A.M. PROVENANCE: G. R. Halkett; bt. R. A. Walker in 1913; bt. Herbert von Garvens (1913); …; H. H. Harrod; bequeathed to Victoria and Albert Museum in 1948. EXHIBITION: London 1966-8 (155) LITERATURE: Pall Mall Budget 23 February 1893 (pp.281-2); Artist 1 March 1893 (p.82); Theatre 1 March 1893 (p.166); Vallance 1897 (p.204), 1909 (no.55.vii.1); Gallatin 1945 (no. 267); Reade 1967 (p.315 n.50); Samuels Lasner 1995 (no.1); Stokes 1996 (p.117). REPRODUCED: Pall Mall Budget 23 February 1893 (p.281); Uncollected Work 1925 (no.53); Reade 1967 (plate 46). One of five characters in the play Diplomacy, which B. C. Stephenson and Clement Scott adapted from Victorien Sardou’s Dora, first produced in Paris in January 1877. After a provincial tour, the play was produced by Mr and Mrs Bancroft, leading actor-managers, at the Garrick Theatre, London, where it opened on 18 February 1893. The Artist called the revival a ‘triumph’ (1 March 1893, p.82). Another reviewer, however, found himself longing for the 1884 ‘charged’ performance of the play and surprised that ‘the one cry that rose at the end of each act was for [Forbes Robertson and Miss Rorke]’ (Theatre 1 March 1893, p.166). Beardsley’s drawings accompanied an article titled ‘The Reappearance of Mrs Bancroft’, an interview with Mr Bancroft about the play (Pall Mall Budget 23 February 1893, pp.281-2). For further comment about Beardsley’s drawings for the Pall Mall Budget, see 274 above.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.30-1948

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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