A caricature of Thomas Hardy
1897
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1897
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A caricature of Thomas Hardy is a 1897 by GRIP, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
A watercolour caricature by GRIP, published in the English Illustrated Magazine in 1897, depicts the writer Thomas Hardy seated at a desk. The work is signed in the lower right corner with the artist’s pseudonym, additional initials, and a small bird motif. Part of a larger collection of theatrical and illustrative sketches commissioned for magazines such as The Illustrated London News and The Sketch, the drawing was donated to the museum by Sir William James Ingram in 1914.
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This artist made a single drawing from 1897—a playful sketch of Thomas Hardy. It’s a quick line-and-wash caricature, the kind you’d see in a magazine or on a pub wall in the 1890s. The work is more about the joke and…
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