Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade Finish:Float frame actor and writer

actor and writer

Charles I making a present of his portrait to Rubens who comes to take his leave

first President of the Royal Society

reluctant to accept this barely tamed 'gift'

Left to right: John Entwistle

Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade Finish:Float frame actor and writer'Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade', 1904. 'Scene: the Board of Trade. Time: office hours in the early 'eighties. Mr Austin Dobson and Mr Edmund Gosse Composing a Ballade are taken unawares by their President, Sir Josiah Chamberlain'. Illustration from The Poets Corner, by Max Beerbohm, (London, 1904).