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Title

Woodblock of Henry Irving

Technique

Wood

Subject

Character

Eugene Aram : Eugene Aram

Artist

Barnard, Fred [ Copy after ]

Date

1883

Dimensions

Height: 17.5cm
Width: 11.1cm
Depth: 12.7cm

Other materials

Paper and felt attached to verso

Inscription/signature

"W J Palmer sc" (reversed signature engraved b.l.); "Barnard 83" (reversed signature engraved b.r.); "THE ORIGINAL WOOD BLOCK / HENRY IRVING / AS / EUGENE ARAM / BY / FRED BARNARD / 21/ ?? (pen on paper verso); "Irving as Eugene Aram" (pencil on verso); "THE GENERAL PRINTING / BLOCK COMPANY LIMITED" (stamped on verso)

Provenance

Presented to the Garrick Club by Geoffrey Russell, 1949

Other number

Gift 691

Interestingly this block does not correspond in composition to the woodcut listed in the Harvard Theatre Collection of Irving as Eugene Aram by the artist F Barnard (vol 2 p288 No151), but rather matches the following anonymous woodcut (No152). It is however definitely carrying both the signatures of barnard and Palmer.
Henry Irving first played "Eugene Aram", the lead in the play of the same title, by William Gorman Wills, in April 1873.
 
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