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Max Beerbohm Collection of Majl Ewing http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c87080tg No online items Majl Ewing Collection on Max Beerbohm MS.1969.005 Rebecca Fenning Marschall William Andrews Clark Memorial Library 2012 2520 Cimarron Street Los Angeles 90018 [email protected] URL: http://www.clarklibrary.ucla.edu/ Majl Ewing Collection on Max MS.1969.005 1 Beerbohm MS.1969.005 Language of Material: English Contributing Institution: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Title: Max Beerbohm Collection of Majl Ewing source: Ewing, Majl Identifier/Call Number: MS.1969.005 Physical Description: 5 Linear Feet(3 boxes) Date (inclusive): 1896-1966, undated Abstract: Original artwork and prints created by (or related to) caricaturist, author and artist Max Beerbohm. The items in this collection were a donation from the estate of UCLA Professor Majl Ewing. Clark Library Language of Material: Materials in English. Access Collection is open for research. Publication Rights Copyright has not been assigned to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Clark Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Max Beerbohm Collection of Majl Ewing, MS.1969.005, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. Acquisition Note This collection was compiled by Majl Ewing and donated to the Clark Library after his 1967 death. Processing Information This collection was physically processed by Derek Quezada in 2011 and the finding aid was written by Rebecca Fenning Marschall in June 2012. Biographical Note Max Beerbohm was born Henry Maximilian Beerbohm on August 24, 1872, the youngest son of Julius and Eliza Beerbohm. His older half-brother was the actor and theater manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree. "Max" (as he was always known) was educated at Charterhouse and Merton College, Oxford, where he met some of his dearest and most influential friends, including William Rothenberg, Oscar Wilde, and Aubrey Beardsley, among others. He left Oxford in 1894 without a degree and around the same time, gained prominence as an essayist and caricaturist. From 1898 to 1910, he was also the drama critic for the Saturday Review. In 1910, he married American actress Florence Kahn and moved with her to Rapallo, Italy, where they would live the rest of their lives (with travels home to Britain during both World Wars and for their respective work). Beerbohm died in 1956. Scope and Contents This collection contains original art and prints by or related to Max Beerbohm, dating from approximately 1890 to 1964, and collected by UCLA English Professor Majl Ewing in the 1950s-1960s. Arrangement This collection is arranged in two series: Series I. Original work and prints by Max Beerbohm; Series II: Work by others and collection notes. Subjects and Indexing Terms Drawings (visual works) -- England -- 19th century Caricatures -- 19th century Conder, Charles Edward Rothenstein, William, 1872-1945 Ewing, Majl Original Artwork and Prints by Max Beerbohm Series I. 1896-1928 Majl Ewing Collection on Max MS.1969.005 2 Beerbohm MS.1969.005 Original Artwork and Prints by Max Beerbohm Series I. 1896-1928 Vanity Fair caricatures (reproductions) box 1, folder 2 "Didi" (line drawing of his mother's dog) 1903 box 1, folder 3 Sketch of Swinburne, Rossetti and a Pre-Raphaelite lady for a fresco in Villino Chiaro Note Hart-Davis 1281. box 1, folder 4 Pencil and watercolor sketch of a girl's face in a Regency mirror box 1, folder 7 Granville Barker (ink and pencil) ca. 1907 Note Hart-Davis 92. box 1, folder 8 Self portrait as Otto von Bismarck (pencil) Note Hart-Davis 1439. box 1, folder 9 "Walter Ledgett and Felix Argallo" (pencil sketch of characters from Seven Men ca 1919 Note Hart-Davis 1860. box 1, folder 13 "These things adjudged perfect: 1. Beerbohm 2. Packmann 3. Genee" (pen, self portrait) Note Hart-Davis 1437. box 1, folder 10 "Some masters of forty years ago" (ink & blue wash) 1928 Note Caricature of masters from Charterhouse School in 1888. Hart-Davis 664A. box 1, folder 11 "Vague memories of some of them" (red crayon and blue wash) ca 1928 Note Caricatures of Charterhouse School faculty. For P.L. Ingpen. Hart-Davis 665. box 1, folder 12 Florence Beerbohm portrait (pencil and wash) 1913 box 1, folder 14 "Mr Charles Brookfield" (pencil and wash) Note Hart-Davis 183. box 1, folder 15 Big nosed man in evening dress, speaking from a stage (ink and pastel) Note Hart-Davis 1714. box 1, folder 16 "Miss Mona Limerick" (ink and wash) 1909 Note Hart-Davis 937. box 1, folder 17 "The Perfidious Devotee" (George Wyndham) (ink, published in The World) 1900 Note Hart-Davis 1816. Majl Ewing Collection on Max MS.1969.005 3 Beerbohm MS.1969.005 Original Artwork and Prints by Max Beerbohm Series I. 1896-1928 Vanity Fair caricatures (reproductions) box 1, folder 18 "The Amateur Nurse" (ink, published in The World) 1900 Note Hart-Davis 1947. box 1, folder 19 "Apollo and Marsyas, ie, Kipling and Alfred Austen" (ink, published in The World) 1900 Note Hart-Davis 52. box 1, folder 20 Head and shoulders of a bored soldier with a rifle (ink, published in The World) 1900 Note Hart-Davis 1948. box 1, folder 21 "The British Volunteer" (ink, published in The World) 1900 Note Hart-Davis 1949. box 1, folder 22 "The Yellow Peril" (ink, published in The World) 1900 Note Hart-Davis 1950. box 1, folder 23 "Herbert Gladstone" (ink, published in The World) 1900 Note Hart-Davis 582. box 1, folder 24 "The Unsuccessful Decoy" (ink, published in The World) 1900 Note Hart-Davis 1952. box 1, folder 25 "Southampton Docks" (ink, published in The World) 1900 Note Hart-Davis 1953. box 1, folder 26 "Controllers of our Naval Policy" (ink, published in The World) 1900 Note Hart-Davis 1954. box 1, folder 27 "Napoleon Crossing the Alps" (ink, published in The World) 1900 Note Hart-Davis 1082. box 1, folder 28 Big fish caught on hooks resembling a soldier and a sailor (ink, published in The World) 1900 Note Hart-Davis 1955. box 3, folder 13 Paper covers for A Survey by Max Beerbohm 1921 box 2, folder 1 Pencil sketches of men in profile from the collection of Reginald Turner box 2, folder 2 Part of the fresco at Rapallo, showing the heads of Reginald Turner, George Moore, A.W. Pinero, Rudyard Kipling and William Rothenstein (pencil and pastel) box 2, folder 3 Sketch for "Draughting a Bill at the Board of Trade" ca 1909 Note Hart-Davis 330. Majl Ewing Collection on Max MS.1969.005 4 Beerbohm MS.1969.005 Original Artwork and Prints by Max Beerbohm Series I. 1896-1928 Vanity Fair caricatures (reproductions) box 2, folder 4 James Stephens (ink) Note Hart-Davis 1597. box 2, folder 5 "Mr. Harry Melvill" (ink and wash) ca 1901 Note Hart-Davis 1026. box 2, folder 6 Sketch for "Annual meting of Mr. Stirling Stuart-Crawford, Mr. Augustus John and Lord Ribblesdale to protest against the fashions for the coming spring (ink and wash) 1909 Note Hart-Davis 824. box 2, folder 7 "Mr. Lawrence Binyon" Note Hart-Davis 143. box 2, folder 8 GB Shaw and Anatole France 1904 Note Hart-Davis 1483. location Annex 2, "The British Drama (that internal invalid)" 1923 tall map case, Note Drawer 16 Hart-Davis 95. box 4, Folder 4 "I beg your pardon: but could you tell me the way to Downing Street?" (Arthur James Balfour) (published in The World) 1900 Note Hart-Davis 61. box 2, folder 11 G.K. Chesterton gesticulating in evening dress Note Hart-Davis 315. box 2, Folder 12 "A Memory of Mr. Andrew Lang" 1926 Note Hart-Davis 892. box 4, folder 5 William Wordsworth taking notes on a sailor's conversation (published in The World) 1900 Note Hart-Davis 1809. box 4, Folder 6 "Walt Whitman, inciting the bird of freedom to soar" (reproduction, published in The Poet's Corner) ca 1904 Note Hart-Davis 1776. Majl Ewing Collection on Max MS.1969.005 5 Beerbohm MS.1969.005 Original Artwork and Prints by Max Beerbohm Series I. 1896-1928 Vanity Fair caricatures (reproductions) location Office "Wordsworth in the Lake District, at cross purposes" (reproduction, published in The B02B Poet's Corner) ca 1904 Note Hart-Davis 1810. location Office "Mr. W.B. Yeats presenting Mr. George Moore to the Queen of the Fairies" B02B (reproduction, published in The Poet's Corner) ca 1904 Note Hart-Davis 1827. box 4, folder 1 "The Celtic Renaissance" (George Moore and W.B. Yeats) (ink, published in The World) 1900 Note Hart-Davis 1046. location Annex 2, "Dramatic critics, arboricultural and otherwise" (AB Walkley and Max) 1907 tall map case, Note Drawer 14 Hart-Davis 1730 box 2, folder 9 Richard LeGallienne standing on a pile of books (ink, published in The World) 1900 Note Hart-Davis 914. box 2, folder 10 Cover image for The Poets' Corner 1904 Note Hart-Davis 1420. box 4, folder 2 Self portrait in top hat (pencil) Note Hart-Davis 1431. Vanity Fair caricatures (reproductions) box 3, folder 2 "From the Villino Chiaro" by Douglas Cleverdon, The Listener, 22 December 1960 box 3, folder 3 "Our First Novelist" (George Meredith) 24 Sept 1896 Physical Description: 2 copies. Hart-Davis 1034. box 3, folder 4 "The St James's" (George Alexander) 20 January 1909 Note Hart-Davis 10.
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