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

Front row: George Best

Plate 314 from chapter 104 of Gleanings of natural history

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

about half the natural size

The accompanying text states that 'We are obliged to Mr

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).