Henry Irving, English actor Size:L: 75 x 60cm Front row: George Best

Front row: George Best

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

West Fourteenth Street

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In a dig at what Punch perceived to be Lord John Russell's obsession with his Reform Bill

Henry Irving, English actor Size:L: 75 x 60cm Front row: George BestHenry 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).