Max Beerbohm Collection of Majl Ewing
MS.1969.005
Finding aid prepared by Rebecca Fenning Marschall
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street
Los Angeles, CA, 90018
(323) 731-8529
rfenning@humnet.ucla.edu
2012
Title: Max Beerbohm Collection of Majl Ewing
Identifier/Call Number: MS.1969.005
Contributing Institution:
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
5.0 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 Materials: 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
Conder, Charles Edward, 1868-1909
Ewing, Majl
Rothenstein, William, 1872-1945
Caricatures--19th century.
Drawings (visual works)--England--19th century
Series I.
Original Artwork and Prints by Max Beerbohm
1896-1928
Graphic materials 1, Folder 2
"Didi" (line drawing of his mother's dog)
1903
Graphic materials 1, Folder 3
Sketch of Swinburne, Rossetti and a Pre-Raphaelite lady for a fresco in Villino Chiaro
Graphic materials 1, Folder 4
Pencil and watercolor sketch of a girl's face in a Regency mirror
Graphic materials 1, Folder 7
Granville Barker (ink and pencil)
ca. 1907
Graphic materials 1, Folder 8
Self portrait as Otto von Bismarck (pencil)
Graphic materials 1, Folder 9
"Walter Ledgett and Felix Argallo" (pencil sketch of characters from
Seven Men
ca 1919
Graphic materials 1, Folder 13
"These things adjudged perfect: 1. Beerbohm 2. Packmann 3. Genee" (pen, self portrait)
Graphic materials 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.
Graphic materials 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.
Graphic materials 1, Folder 12
Florence Beerbohm portrait (pencil and wash)
1913
Graphic materials 1, Folder 14
"Mr Charles Brookfield" (pencil and wash)
Graphic materials 1, Folder 15
Big nosed man in evening dress, speaking from a stage (ink and pastel)
Graphic materials 1, Folder 16
"Miss Mona Limerick" (ink and wash)
1909
Graphic materials 1, Folder 17
"The Perfidious Devotee" (George Wyndham) (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Graphic materials 1, Folder 18
"The Amateur Nurse" (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Graphic materials 1, Folder 19
"Apollo and Marsyas, ie, Kipling and Alfred Austen" (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Graphic materials 1, Folder 20
Head and shoulders of a bored soldier with a rifle (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Graphic materials 1, Folder 21
"The British Volunteer" (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Graphic materials 1, Folder 22
"The Yellow Peril" (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Graphic materials 1, Folder 23
"Herbert Gladstone" (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Graphic materials 1, Folder 24
"The Unsuccessful Decoy" (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Graphic materials 1, Folder 25
"Southampton Docks" (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Graphic materials 1, Folder 26
"Controllers of our Naval Policy" (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Graphic materials 1, Folder 27
"Napoleon Crossing the Alps" (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Graphic materials 1, Folder 28
Big fish caught on hooks resembling a soldier and a sailor (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Mixed materials 3, Folder 13
Paper covers for
A Survey by Max Beerbohm
1921
Graphic materials 2, Folder 1
Pencil sketches of men in profile from the collection of Reginald Turner
Graphic materials 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)
Graphic materials 2, Folder 3
Sketch for "Draughting a Bill at the Board of Trade"
ca 1909
Graphic materials 2, Folder 4
Graphic materials 2, Folder 5
"Mr. Harry Melvill" (ink and wash)
ca 1901
Graphic materials 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
Graphic materials 2, Folder 7
Graphic materials 2, Folder 8
GB Shaw and Anatole France
1904
Graphic materials Library cubicle 12
"The British Drama (that internal invalid)"
1923
Graphic materials Library catalog office
"I beg your pardon: but could you tell me the way to Downing Street?" (Arthur James Balfour) (published in
The World)
1900
Graphic materials Library catalog office
G.K. Chesterton gesticulating in evening dress
Graphic materials Library cubicle 12
"A Memory of Mr. Andrew Lang"
1926
Graphic materials Library catalog office
William Wordsworth taking notes on a sailor's conversation (published in
The World)
1900
Graphic materials Library cubicle 12
"Walt Whitman, inciting the bird of freedom to soar" (reproduction, published in
The Poet's Corner)
ca 1904
Graphic materials Library cubicle 12
"Wordsworth in the Lake District, at cross purposes" (reproduction, published in
The Poet's Corner)
ca 1904
Graphic materials Library cubicle 13
"Mr. W.B. Yeats presenting Mr. George Moore to the Queen of the Fairies" (reproduction, published in
The Poet's Corner)
ca 1904
Graphic materials Library cubicle 13
"The Celtic Renaissance" (George Moore & W.B. Yeats) (ink, published in
The World)
1900
Mixed materials 3, Folder 2
"From the Villino Chiaro" by Douglas Cleverdon,
The Listener,
22 December 1960
Graphic materials 3, Folder 3
"Our First Novelist" (George Meredith)
24 Sept 1896
Graphic materials 3, Folder 4
"The St James's" (George Alexander)
20 January 1909
Graphic materials 3, Folder 5
"The Belgian Poet" (Maurice Maeterlinck)
22 July 1908
Graphic materials 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
Graphic materials 3, Folder 7
"Four Feathers" (AEW Mason)
10 June 1908
Graphic materials 3, Folder 8
"He is very affluent" (WJ Galloway)
11 January 1906
Graphic materials 3, Folder 9
"Though it is an arguable point..." (AW Pinero and George Bernard Shaw)
1906
Graphic materials 3, Folder 10
"A Great Realist" (John Singer Sargent)
1909
Graphic materials 3, Folder 11
"Unlike Wilkes..." (M. de Soveral)
1907
Graphic materials 3, Folder 12
"Max" by Walter Sickert
9 December 1897
Series II.
Work by Others and Collection Notes
1905-1966
Mixed materials 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
Mixed materials 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
Mixed materials 3, Folder 1
TLS from Joseph Branstein to Majl Ewing regarding Roxburghe/Zamorano keepsake
7 October 1964
Mixed materials 3, Folder 1
Majl Ewing's acquisition notes and correspondence from book dealers
1956-1964
Graphic materials 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."
Graphic materials 1, Folder 5
William Rothenstein, pencil sketch of Max Beerbohm (unsigned)
Mixed materials 1, Folder 1
Charles Conder portrait of "Max"
1905
Note
Inscribed: "To Max Beerbohm affection[ate] homages from C. Conder, 1905."
