Drawings by Powys Evans, 1920s-1930s
49 Portraits in set
53 sketch books and large number of loose portrait sketches and other drawings, by the popular caricaturist Powys Evans, who was better known as ‘Quiz’. Evans was employed to produce pen and ink portrait drawings and satirical portraits of prominent people of the day for various magazines, including The London Review and The Saturday Review. The sketchbooks contain rough portrait outlines in pencil, taken from life and used as working drawings for the published portraits and caricatures, of artistic, literary, theatrical and political figures from the period 1918 to 1931.
Margaret Ethel ('Storm') Jameson
by Powys Evans
pen and ink, 1920s-1930s
NPG D33413
by Powys Evans
pen and ink, 1920s-1930s
NPG D33463
Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram; Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax
by Powys Evans
pencil, 1920s-1930s
NPG D1680
Unknown man (inscribed 'Irish M.P.')
by Powys Evans
pencil, 1920s-1930s
NPG D11163
Unknown man (Sergeant, Scots Guards)
by Powys Evans
pencil, 1920s-1930s
NPG D1696
George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie
by Powys Evans
pencil, 1922 or before
NPG D33408
by Powys Evans
pencil, 1923 or before
NPG D1682
by Powys Evans
pencil, sketch for Quiz cartoon (Eighty eight cartoons, 1926, no. 7)
NPG D1674
