Edmund Joseph Sullivan
, British, 1869-1933
Title
Portrait of George Bernard Shaw Writing at a DeskDate1929
MediumCopper plate
Dimensions
Plate: 26.5 x 20.3 cm
Credit LinePresented, Gordon G. F. Dixon, 2019
Object numberNGI.2019.112
DescriptionThis plate was etched when Shaw was a household name, famous as a playwright and commentator. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1925. In the late 1920s he published 'The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism'; visited Russia reporting that he had "seen the future"; and had his play 'The Applecart' put on in Warsaw and at the Malvern Festival.ProvenancePurchased, Bloomsbury Auctions, London, Modern Books and Works on Paper Sale, 20th September 2016; presented, Gordon G. F. Dixon, 2019