"Facing the Late Victorians"

[ellenkushner]

At the Book Fair I picked up a postcard with this rather arresting image, notifying us all of an exhibit at the Grolier Club (a little gem!): Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent . . . E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as the unpublished sketches of themselves that Rudyard Kipling and Aubrey Beardsley included in letters to friends; the comical drawing of William Morris that the painter Edward Burne-Jones added to his guest-book; or Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face.

The show is "open to the public free of charge" through April 26th. They're also offering a book of it, if you long for it but cannot come to E. 60th Street.

Comments

[justinhowe.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this. The Grolier Club is a great place.

[timeripple.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting about this! I read about it here and dropped by while I was in the neighborhood. It's a really wonderful exhibit.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you for telling me that! I'm always pimping worthy NYC cultural activities into the void - it's great to know this one found someone and made them happy!