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ISBN: 9780300111279\r\n\r\nThe entry is as follows:\r\n295\r\nMr Arthur Cecil (Baron Stein)\r\nBy 22 February 1893\r\nVictoria and Albert Museum, London (E.30-1948)\r\nPen and Indian ink over pencil on irregularly cut white wove paper; 5 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches (133 x 133 mm).\r\n\r\nINSCRIPTIONS: Recto inscribed by artist at far right: MR / ARTHUR / CECIL / (BARON / STEIN) / [in pencil in another hand in right corner]: 3  have by / Tuesday at 5; Verso in pencil: 8567 / P.M.G. / [in ink]: E.30-1948; [stamp of] V.A.M.\r\n\r\nPROVENANCE: G. R. Halkett; bt. R. A. Walker in 1913; bt. Herbert von Garvens (1913); …; H. H. Harrod; bequeathed to Victoria and Albert Museum in 1948.\r\n\r\nEXHIBITION: London 1966-8 (155)\r\n\r\nLITERATURE: Pall Mall Budget 23 February 1893 (pp.281-2); Artist 1 March 1893 (p.82); Theatre 1 March 1893 (p.166); Vallance 1897 (p.204), 1909 (no.55.vii.1); Gallatin 1945 (no. 267); Reade 1967 (p.315 n.50); Samuels Lasner 1995 (no.1); Stokes 1996 (p.117).\r\n\r\nREPRODUCED: Pall Mall Budget 23 February 1893 (p.281); Uncollected Work 1925 (no.53); Reade 1967 (plate 46).\r\n\r\nOne of five characters in the play Diplomacy, which B. C. Stephenson and Clement Scott adapted from Victorien Sardou’s Dora, first produced in Paris in January 1877. After a provincial tour, the play was produced by Mr and Mrs Bancroft, leading actor-managers, at the Garrick Theatre, London, where it opened on 18 February 1893. The Artist called the revival a ‘triumph’ (1 March 1893, p.82). Another reviewer, however, found himself longing for the 1884 ‘charged’ performance of the play and surprised that ‘the one cry that rose at the end of each act was for [Forbes Robertson and Miss Rorke]’ (Theatre 1 March 1893, p.166). Beardsley’s drawings accompanied an article titled ‘The Reappearance of Mrs Bancroft’, an interview with Mr Bancroft about the play (Pall Mall Budget 23 February 1893, pp.281-2). For further comment about Beardsley’s drawings for the Pall Mall Budget, see 274 above.   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