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G0998
Drawings: G0998
Title
Johnston Forbes-Robertson
Technique
Caricature
Subject
Character
Dick Helder : The Light That Failed
Artist
Date
1903
Dimensions
Height: 20.7cm
Width: 15.2cm
Width: 15.2cm
Other materials
Pen and black ink with watercolour on paper
Inscription/signature
"JHB" (signed monogram b.r.); "Forbes Robertson" (inscr: pencil b.l.)
Provenance
Presented to the Garrick Club by Nicholas Hannen OBE [according to text on envelope that they were discovered in]
Literature
A photographic spread from the 1903 production at the Lyric Theatre appeared in "The Play Pictorial; An Illustrated Journal" 1903, No. IX, pp327-354
One of a set of eleven caricatures [see G0991-G1001] of the cast of "The Light that Failed", adapted by George Fleming from the novel by Rudyard Kipling, which was performed at the Lyric Theatre from 7th February 1903, and Drury Lane from 31st March 1913.
The caricatures are accompanied by a list of the cast (pencil on Garrick Club notepaper) [Gerald du Maurier does not appear on this list and was not part of the cast], and a letter from the artist to Mr Charles A Mills, dated 17th July 1903. [This has been placed in the library.]
The caricatures are accompanied by a list of the cast (pencil on Garrick Club notepaper) [Gerald du Maurier does not appear on this list and was not part of the cast], and a letter from the artist to Mr Charles A Mills, dated 17th July 1903. [This has been placed in the library.]
