Henry Irving, English actor Size:L: 75 x 60cm A small table is visible

A small table is visible to the left of picture and there is a curtain or drape in the right-hand background

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Plate 314 from chapter 104 of Gleanings of natural history

Front row: George Best

Head and shoulders portrait of Brookes

Henry Irving, English actor Size:L: 75 x 60cm A small table is visibleHenry Irving, English actor, 1883. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (London, 1876 1883).