Drawings: G0281

Title

Sir John Hare, as "Uncle Sam"

Technique

Caricature

Subject

Hare, John (Sir)

Artist

Abbey, Edwin Austin RA

Date

1895

Dimensions

Height: 43.2cm
Width: 26.7cm

Other materials

Black chalk on wove paper

Inscription/signature

"E A Abbey '95." (black chalk b. l.); "His KINSMEN wait his genial loved return!" (black chalk b. c.); "Caricature of Sir John Hare drawn by Edwin Abbey R. A., as frontispiece to the Menu Cards on the occasion of the dinner given by the Club called The Kinsmen to welcome Hare home after his tour in the United States" (on verso)

Provenance

Presented by A.R. Prideaux, 1936

Other number

CKA 531
Gift 434

Exhibition history

Garrick Club Exhibition 'Laughter Lines - Actor Members of the Club in 'Garrickature'' (August - December 2019), Curated by Dr Mark Bryant

Hare walks down a gang-plank from a ship; over his shoulder he holds a stick on which are are six strings with dangling hearts. His striped trousers have dollar signs over the pockets.
The iconography presumably refers to the hearts Hare had won in America and to the dollars he brought back with him.