Drawings: SEM09

Title

Lionel Brough

Technique

Other work on paper

Subject

Brough, Lionel

Artist

Sem, Frederick

Dimensions

height (sheet): 22.5cm
width (sheet): 13.99cm

Other materials

Watercolour on board

Inscription/signature

" Blue Beard (vertically on the beard prop held in the L hand)/ Balsam of Aniseed (vertically on the bottle on the L)/ SEM/ Brough"

Provenance

Purchased from the private collection of Andrea Manzitti in 2013.

Lionel Brough played Bluebeard at Charring Cross Theatre 1874. From Notes & Queries 1880: “Lionel Brough, Esq was an actor, who once stated:" I think it an invaluable medicine for members of my profession, and have always recommended it to my brother and sister Artists', POWELL'S BALSAM of ANISEED”