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Drawings: G0027
Title
Sir Squire Bancroft
Technique
Caricature
Subject
Artist
Dimensions
Height: 28cm
Width: 50.4cm
Width: 50.4cm
Other materials
Pen and black ink, watercolour and body colour on grey-blue wove paper
Inscription/signature
"Ape" (pen and brown ink b. l.); "To my friend J. L. Toole / Carlo Pellegrini / August 83" (pen and brown ink on mount b. r.)
Provenance
Given by the artist to J. L. Toole; John H. Harris, by whom presented, 1936
Other number
Not listed 538
Exhibition history
Garrick Club Exhibition 'Laughter Lines - Actor Members of the Club in 'Garrickature'' (August - December 2019), Curated by Dr Mark Bryant
Bancroft wears black shoes with brown stripes, grey spats, brown trousers with vertical grey stripes, a grey jacket with tails, a white shirt, and a black cravat with a pearl stick. He has a large blue flower in his button-hole.
There is another caricature portrait of Bancroft by Pellegrini in the National Portrait Gallery (5072 watercolour 56.2 x 34.3) signed “Ape”. It dates from about 1880 and shows Bancroft as Captain Hawtree in T. W. Robertson's “Caste”.
There is another caricature portrait of Bancroft by Pellegrini in the National Portrait Gallery (5072 watercolour 56.2 x 34.3) signed “Ape”. It dates from about 1880 and shows Bancroft as Captain Hawtree in T. W. Robertson's “Caste”.
