Critics Collection

Coleridge Nether Stowey
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE English poet and critics cottage at Nether Stowey, Somerset Date: 1772 - 1834

POSTER FOR TOSCA 1900
The first production, at Romes Teatro Costanzi on 14 January 1900, is received coolly by many critics, but is a resounding success with the audience and the public

Cartoon, On the Line - Captious Critics
Political cartoon, On the Line - Captious Critics - Free Education Budget, George Goschen (then Chancellor of the Exchequer) depicted as an artist, William Ewart Gladstone and William Harcourt

The Edison Shop Advertisement
An advertisement picture for The Edison Shop, promoting The New Edison, accompanied by a female model. Embodies a New Art?

In Majorca
Critics write books about nationality in art. But art itself knows no frontiers. here we have a Swedish artist painting in Majorca and his work speaks its full message to English eyes

Cartoon, The New Hamlet - Waiting for the Verdict - the Shakespearean actor Wilson Barrett (1846-1904) waits for the reviews of his new production to come in. 1884

Cartoon, Lord Lytton and the drama critic
Cartoon, Lord Lytton (Robert Bulwer-Lytton) insinuates that if you want the good word of a dramatic critic, you should first give him a good supper! 1884

Cartoon, Critics from Shadowland, WW1
Cartoon, Critics from Shadowland, showing Kaiser Wilhelm I, Helmut von Moltke and Count Otto von Bismarck, as they appeared during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1

USA - The Post Office, New York - The Post Office, New York. New York circa 1905. City Hall Post Office. Designed by Alfred Mullett, completed in 1880 and demolished in 1939

Caricature, Sir Squire Bancroft and Mowbray Morris
Caricature, Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926), English actor-manager, and Mowbray Morris, theatre critic, with other critics in the background enjoying food and drink in the Critics Buffet

Alfred Austin (1896)
ALFRED AUSTIN, forgettable and unlikeable poet whose profuse output wins him more mockery than praise from the critics but, astonishingly, gets him appointed Poet Laureate, 1896. Date: 1835 - 1913

Alfred Austin (Punch)
ALFRED AUSTIN, indifferent and unlikeable poet whose profuse output wins him more mockery than praise from the critics but, astonishingly, gets him appointed Poet Laureate, 1896. Date: 1835 - 1913

Manchurian Criticism
At Harbin, Manchuria, the author of a play, disapproving of the production, mounts the stage and attacks the principal actors with a hammer he happens to have with him. Date: 1933

Coleridge Clevedon Cott
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE English poet and critics cottage at Clevedon Date: 1772 - 1834

Sketch cover - The Arm Chair critic, WW1
Front cover of The Sketch magazine featuring an illustration of an arm-chair critic, one of the satirised stereotypes of the First World War - a club man type who who likes to read the papers

Portrait photograph of Charles Dickens reading to his daughters. English writer and social critic

Elizabeth Spence - 2
ELIZABETH ISABELLA SPENCE writer of novels and travel books such as the customs of Scotland (which was ridiculed by critics, unfortunately) Date: 1768 - 1832

Elizabeth Spence - 1
ELIZABETH ISABELLA SPENCE writer of novels and travel books such as the customs of Scotland (which was ridiculed by critics, unfortunately) Date: 1768 - 1832

Humorous exchnge between actor and theatre critic
Actor - " What did you think of my performance of the ghost?" Critic - " It was most lifelike." !!! Date: 1893

The critics prize play of 1937 Maxwell Andersons fantastic comedy High tor. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of High Tor at the Belasco. Date 1937

Vivisection. The critics and the criticized. Illustration shows four vignettes, in top left a woman wearing feathers and fur is standing near a dead bird

Why Dont they get a move on?

Post-Impressionist Expressions
Satirical cartoon by HM Bateman on the Post Impressionist exhibition at the Grafton Galleries in London. The controversial exhibition introduced modern art to Britain and was organised

Government Critics
Its a thankless task stopping a Punch ball - The harder you hit it, the harder it comes back. Cartoon showing the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George

Lafayette Satire
M.J.P.Y.R.G DU M DE LAFAYETTE caricatured as he cosies up to madame de Bailly, wife of the mayor of Paris : a hero to many French people, he also has many critics and enemies

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