The Irving Societyさんのイラストまとめ

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Other 'Beggarstaff' posters'

& a Guardian review of an exhibition of the duo's work at the @FitzMuseum_UK

https://t.co/cb37vm8fsW

Born #OTD 30 March

Scottish artist James Ferrier Pryde (1866–1941)

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Edward Gordon Craig called this one of the 3 best paintings of Sir Henry Irving:

Irving as Dubosc in The Lyons Mail
pencil & gouache on paper laid on board, c.1906

https://t.co/oOsJBsQzkm

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Now, seekers…

If you’re ready to sit with Pixie while you read your own tarot …

(portrait by @Jamesboyle)

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But her reputation has begun to revive, with 3 biographies in the last 3 years

In 2013, 2 previously unseen folders of her work were found, including these from her 1900 American tour

‘The Ellen Peg’
‘The Bramy Joker’

https://t.co/BfRcRuDaoi

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… and again in 1909, of "visions evoked by music, sketched during the concert or opera”

Sonata No.11 - Beethoven

Overture ‘Manfred’ - Schumann

Overture ‘Egmont’ - Beethoven

all 1907 - Stieglitz archive, Yale

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Irving was the first president of the British Empire Shakespeare Society

from its illustrated Report, March 1904:

Much Ado
Irving as Wolsey in Henry VIII
Terry as Portia

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Strolling Players - Terry & Irving

& Our Adventures

both from The Kensington,
a Magazine of Literature, Art & The Drama,
Vol 1, 1901

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Irving & Terry used their connections to find her design work at several West End theatres

She toured England with the Lyceum company in the autumn of 1900

‘Portia hurrying to the Railway Station’
1900, V&A

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Her maternal grandmother, Pamela Colman, had been a children’s writer & illustrator, which her husband Samuel published

Her father’s cousin was an actor - William Gillette, famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes

R.H. Russell NY, 1899

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Widdicombe Fair

Doubleday & McCLure NY, 1899