Miscellaneous: M0251

Title

Henry Irving's walking stick

Subject

Irving, Henry John (Sir)
Irving, Henry Brodribb
Brereton, Austin

Dimensions

height: 92.5cm
diameter: 2cm

Other materials

wood and silver

Inscription/signature

My Father's Walking Sticks/ to Austin Brereton/ from/ HB Irving/ October 15th 1908

Provenance

Bequeathed by Frances Hughes October 2022.

Other number

E0134

Henry Irving's walking sticks, given to his biographer, Austin Brereton (1862-1922) by his son H. B. Irving, October 1908. Austin Brereton was Henry Irving's press-agent and biographer, whose two volume biography on Irving was published in 1908.