The Quintessential G.B.S. : Portraits
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George Bernard Shaw
Photograph, n.d.

Annotation on back of photograph: 
"Formerly the Property of Grant Richards. 
Reproduced in Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant, vol. 1, 1898"

Dodd, Mead & Co. George Bernard Shaw Archive

 


George Bernard Shaw
Photograph, 1904.

Sidney P. Albert -- George Bernard Shaw Collection

 


 

Vanity Fair Supplement
George Bernard Shaw by "Ruth" (Max Beerbohm)
Watford & London: Bemrose Dalziel Ltd., December 28, 1905.

Max Beerbohm made over 60 cartoons of Shaw. This one had the caption: "Magnetic, he has the power to infect almost everyone with the delight that he takes in himself."

Sidney P. Albert -- George Bernard Shaw Collection


Elliot Fry
Photograph of G. B. Shaw, 1919.

Purchased for the Sidney P. Albert--George Bernard Shaw Collection


George Bernard Shaw
Photograph, 1919, with autograph note, signed, 17 June 1919.

Sidney P. Albert -- George Bernard Shaw Collection

 


William Rothenstein

Portrait of George Bernard Shaw from Twenty-Four Portraits.

London: George Unwin Ltd., [1920]

Sidney P. Albert -- George Bernard Shaw Collection

 


Vanity Fair
Caricature of George Bernard Shaw by Max Beerbohm.
London: December, 1931.

Sidney P. Albert -- George Bernard Shaw Collection

 


Schutz, Photographer
George Bernard Shaw arrives. S. S. Empress of Britain.
[New York: April 11, 1933.]

A typed note on the back of the photograph states, "An hour after the ship had docked Mr. Shaw finally agreed to pose."

Sidney P. Albert -- George Bernard Shaw Collection

 


George Bernard Shaw

Photograph, n.d.

Sidney P. Albert -- George Bernard Shaw Collection

 

MGM Studios
Photograph taken in April, 1933, at a Hollywood lunch given by Marion Davies.

Seated to the left of Shaw is Charlie Chaplin, and to the right of Marion Davies is Louis B. Mayer. Clark Gable was also present.

Sidney P. Albert -- George Bernard Shaw Collection

 

George Bernard Shaw
Photograph by Howard Coster, Signed by Shaw, 4 October 1935.

Sidney P. Albert -- George Bernard Shaw Collection

 

Molly Bishop
Portrait of George Bernard Shaw, n.d.
Colored crayon and pencil on paper.

Signed 'Molly Bishop' and further signed by the sitter 'Bernard Shaw'.

Purchased for the Sidney P. Albert - George Bernard Collection

 

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