Max Beerbohm’s Poet Caricatures
| October 18, 2012 | 
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A selection of poet caricatures by Max Beerbohm.
Coleridge, table-talking, 1904
Oscar Wilde, 1916
Henrik Ibsen, Receiving Mr William Archer in Audience, 1904
Lord Byron, shaking the dust of England from his shoes, 1904
Riverside Scene. Algernon Swinburne Takes his Great New Friend Gosse to See Gabriel Rossetti, 1916
Mr. Matthew Arnold. To him, Miss Mary Augusta, his niece: “Why Uncle Matthew, oh why, will you not be always wholly serious”, 1904
Ned [Burne-Jones] and Topsy [William Morris] settled in the settle at Red Lion Square, 1917
William Shakespeare, his method of work, 1904
Robert Burns, having set his hand to the plough, looks back at Highland Mary, 1904
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