Booth, J. L. C.. An awful contingency

Folger bibliographic ID: 353071
Folger call number: Sh.Misc. 2304, page 249
Folger holdings ID: 501563
Accession Number: 269819

Cartoon depicting three women in a drawing room. Two young women near a piano, one seated and one leaning on a table, are poring over sheets of paper while an older woman, reading a newspaper in an armchair nearby, looks at them. Caption title: "An awful contingency." Caption dialogue: "'What are you doing?' 'Settling our costumes for the Shakespeare Ball, Mother.' 'Take my advice and wait. They may dig up something at any moment to prove there never was such a person, and then where would your Rosalind and Celia be?'" Artist's name in lower left corner: J.L.C. BOOTH

General notes

Cartoon published on page 249 of the April 5, 1911 issue of Punch (volume CXL) The Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre Committee hosted a "Shakespeare Ball" at the Royal Albert Hall on June 20, 1911 to raise money for the Shakespeare Memorial Fund

Item information about Folger Sh.Misc. 2304, page 249

Bound in a volume with other issues from Punch, volume CXL. Dark red cloth boards, stamped in blind, black, and gold

Women Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

artist: Booth, J. L. C., 1876-1915
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616