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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