This caricature is from the fourth album that the commercial artist George
Cooke used for his caricatures of music hall and variety performers which were
popular during the early reign of King George V, spanning the years 1910 to
1919.
This drawing of ink,
watercolor and bodycolor depicts the head of the music hall performer Eddie
Stidder. Here, Stidder is seen in
white-face pierrot make-up with a white neck frill, and a cello with legs in
the bottom left-hand corner. The
caricature was drawn in 1917. At some
point, the sketch was cut out and glued to the orange sketch paper that we see
here. .
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