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Description
The caricatures are predominately of British personalities, mainly from the world of theater including actors, actresses, playwrights, theater managers and musicians. Also includes a few Americans who were working in the London theater scene, some reform-minded British politicians and two prominent caricaturists of the period. The drawings, some pen and ink, some watercolor, are all signed by Binns; many are autographed by the subject as well.
Names
Binns, L. J. (Creator)
Binns, L. J. (Artist)
Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1901 - 1915
Library locations
Billy Rose Theatre Division
Shelf locator: *T-Vim 1998-025
Topics
Actors -- Caricatures and cartoons -- England
Actors and actresses -- Portraits
Politicians -- England -- Caricatures and cartoons
Genres
Caricatures
Drawings
Paintings
Notes
Biographical/historical: L. J. Binns was a caricaturist working after the turn of the 20th-century in England. He drew caricatures of British personalities, mainly from the worlds of theater and politics. Binns had associations with two predominant caricaturists of this period, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould and Harry Furniss.
Content: The L. J. Binns caricatures (1901-1915) consists predominantly of British personalities, mainly, but not exclusively, drawn from the theater world. L. J. Binns signed all of these originals and many are autographed by the subject of the caricature. The caricatures from the theater world include actors, actresses, playwrights, theatre managers and musicians. The caricatures consist of people working in the London theater scene, including a limited number of Americans working in England after the turn of the century such as Eugene Stratton and Hermann Vezin. One folder contains the autograph of actress Lena Ashwell without any caricature. It is the only folder not to contain a caricature. The caricatures of political leaders consists of more reform-oriented leaders of their day, such as one of the founders of the Labour Party, James Keir Hardie, and a campaigner against child prostitution, William Thomas Stead. Two caricatures are of prominent caricaturists of that period, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould and Harry Furniss. The folder of Sir Francis Carruthers Gould, a pioneer of "picture politics" and sole illustrator of Picture Politics, contains two letters from Gould to L. J. Binns establishing a relationship between these two caricaturists.
Content: National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project.
Acquisition: Drawings: gift, unknown date.
Content: Processing information: Processed by Rick Hunter.
Physical Description
Pencil works
Watercolors
Type of Resource
Still image
Text
Identifiers
Other local Identifier: *T-Vim 1998-025
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b13765578
MSS Unit ID: 21423
RLIN/OCLC: NYPW98-F4
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 7dd35bc0-20cb-013b-3855-0242ac110002
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