H Beard Print Collection
1850
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1850
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
H Beard Print Collection is a 1850 by Claude Calthrop, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows a dramatic moment from a classic play. Charles Surface auctions off family portraits to pay his debts. He even uses a rolled-up family tree as his auction hammer. A shrewd uncle hides as a buyer named Mr. Premium. He wants to see if his nephew will sell the family history itself. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum next.
The engraving depicts a scene from Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s *School for Scandal*, showing Charles Surface auctioning family portraits in a drawing room. A man in the foreground, leaning on a cane, examines a painting on the wall while others gesture toward it, including one standing on a chair. In the background, figures gather around a dining table, adding to the room’s bustling atmosphere. The scene was adapted from an original painting by Claude Calthrop and reproduced as a print for home display.
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Claude Calthrop made late 19th-century prints in the H Beard Print Collection tradition.
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