Ellen Peg's Book of Merry Joys.
Pamela Colman Smith (Pimlico 1878 - Bude 1951)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1899 - 1900
Materials
Paper
Measurements
360 x 260 mm
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Smallhythe Place, Kent
NT 1122457.17
Summary
Illustration (watercolour with ink and graphite under drawing.) Laurence Irving in costume looking at himself in a mirror surrounded by play scripts. Signed by Pamela Colman Smith bottom left. Number 4 painted top right. From book of illustrations and stories based on a trip to America that Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, Laurence Irving, Bram Stoker and Pamela Colman Smith took from 1899 - 1900.
Provenance
One of 43 drawings, some with accompanying poems, from 2 folios created by Pamela Colman Smith. The drawings date from 1900 and were created during the Lyceum Tour of America which ran from October 1899 to May 1900.
Makers and roles
Pamela Colman Smith (Pimlico 1878 - Bude 1951), artist