Majl Ewing Collection on Max Beerbohm
MS.1969.005
Finding aid by Rebecca Fenning Marschall
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2012
2520 Cimarron Street
Los Angeles 90018
clark@humnet.ucla.edu
Contributing Institution:
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Title: Max Beerbohm Collection of Majl Ewing
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.
Physical Location: Clark Library
Language of Material:
English
.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Acquisition Note
This collection was compiled by Majl Ewing and donated to the Clark Library after his 1967 death.
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.
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.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Max Beerbohm Collection of Majl Ewing, MS.1969.005, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University
of California, Los Angeles.
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.
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.
Publication Rights
The Clark Library owns the property rights to its collections but does not hold the copyright to these materials and therefore
cannot grant or deny permission to use them. Researchers are responsible for determining the copyright status of any materials
they may wish to use, investigating the owner of the copyright, and obtaining permission for their intended publication or
other use. In all cases, you must cite the Clark Library as the source with the following credit line: The William Andrews
Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Drawings (visual works) -- England -- 19th century
Caricatures -- 19th century
Original Artwork and Prints by Max Beerbohm Series I.
1896-1928
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
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
Box 1, Folder 8
Self portrait as Otto von Bismarck (pencil)
Box 1, Folder 9
"Walter Ledgett and Felix Argallo" (pencil sketch of characters from
Seven Men
ca 1919
Box 1, Folder 13
"These things adjudged perfect: 1. Beerbohm 2. Packmann 3. Genee" (pen, self portrait)
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)
Box 1, Folder 15
Big nosed man in evening dress, speaking from a stage (ink and pastel)
Box 1, Folder 16
"Miss Mona Limerick" (ink and wash)
1909
Box 1, Folder 17
"The Perfidious Devotee" (George Wyndham) (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Box 1, Folder 18
"The Amateur Nurse" (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Box 1, Folder 19
"Apollo and Marsyas, ie, Kipling and Alfred Austen" (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Box 1, Folder 20
Head and shoulders of a bored soldier with a rifle (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Box 1, Folder 21
"The British Volunteer" (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Box 1, Folder 22
"The Yellow Peril" (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Box 1, Folder 23
"Herbert Gladstone" (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Box 1, Folder 24
"The Unsuccessful Decoy" (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Box 1, Folder 25
"Southampton Docks" (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Box 1, Folder 26
"Controllers of our Naval Policy" (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Box 1, Folder 27
"Napoleon Crossing the Alps" (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Box 1, Folder 28
Big fish caught on hooks resembling a soldier and a sailor (ink, published in
The World)
1900
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
Box 2, Folder 5
"Mr. Harry Melvill" (ink and wash)
ca 1901
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
Box 2, Folder 8
GB Shaw and Anatole France
1904
drawer 76
"The British Drama (that internal invalid)"
1923
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
Box 2, Folder 11
G.K. Chesterton gesticulating in evening dress
Box 2, Folder 12
"A Memory of Mr. Andrew Lang"
1926
Box 4, Folder 5
William Wordsworth taking notes on a sailor's conversation (published in
The World)
1900
Box 4, Folder 6
"Walt Whitman, inciting the bird of freedom to soar" (reproduction, published in
The Poet's Corner)
ca 1904
location Office B02B
"Wordsworth in the Lake District, at cross purposes" (reproduction, published in
The Poet's Corner)
ca 1904
location Office B02B
"Mr. W.B. Yeats presenting Mr. George Moore to the Queen of the Fairies" (reproduction, published in
The Poet's Corner)
ca 1904
Box 4, Folder 1
"The Celtic Renaissance" (George Moore & W.B. Yeats) (ink, published in
The World)
1900
drawer 74
"Dramatic critics, arboricultural and otherwise" (AB Walkley and Max)
1907
Box 2, Folder 9
Richard LeGallienne standing on a pile of books (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Box 2, Folder 10
Cover image for
The Poets' Corner
1904
Box 4, Folder 2
Self portrait in top hat (pencil)
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
Note: 2 copies. Hart-Davis 1034.
Box 3, Folder 4
"The St James's" (George Alexander)
20 January 1909
Box 3, Folder 5
"The Belgian Poet" (Maurice Maeterlinck)
22 July 1908
Box 3, Folder 6
"Magnetic, he has the power to infect almost everyone with the delight that he takes in himself" (George Bernard Shaw)
28 December 1905
Box 3, Folder 7
"Four Feathers" (AEW Mason)
10 June 1908
Box 3, Folder 8
"He is very affluent" (WJ Galloway)
11 January 1906
Box 3, Folder 9
"Though it is an arguable point..." (AW Pinero and George Bernard Shaw)
1 February 1906
Box 3, Folder 10
"A Great Realist" (John Singer Sargent)
24 February 1909
Box 3, Folder 11
"Unlike Wilkes..." (M. de Soveral)
2 October 1907
Box 3, Folder 12
"Max" by Walter Sickert
9 December 1897
Box 4, Folder 3
"Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table-Talking"
1904
Work by Others and Collection Notes Series II.
1905-1966
Box 3, Folder 15
Proof with Majl Ewing's corrections of "Lines written in a copy of the plays of Shakespeare," keepsake for the joint meeting
of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs
1964
Box 3, Folder 14
"Lines written in a copy of the plays of Shakespeare," keepsake for the joint meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs
1964
Box 3, Folder 1
TLS from Joseph Branstein to Majl Ewing regarding Roxburghe/Zamorano keepsake
7 October 1964
Box 3, Folder 1
Majl Ewing's acquisition notes and correspondence from book dealers
1956-1964
Box 1, Folder 6
Two ink and wash studies of Max Beerbohm from Suzanne and Edgar Ewing
1965-1966
Note
Inscription: "To invoke the spirit of Max for Carmelita and Majl - with very best wishes 1965-1966. Suzanne and Edgar Ewing."
Box 1, Folder 5
William Rothenstein, pencil sketch of Max Beerbohm (unsigned)
Box 1, Folder 1
Charles Conder portrait of "Max"
1905
Note
Inscribed: "To Max Beerbohm affection[ate] homages from C. Conder, 1905."