Menu Card, Portfolio of Menu Cards and Letters Relating to the Khayyam Club
Artist
James McBey
(Newburgh, Scotland, 1883 - 1959)
AssociatedAssociated with
The Omar Khayyam Club
AssociatedAssociated with
Victor Gollancz
AssociatedAssociated with
Sir Israel Gollancz
(London, England, 1863 - 1930)
AssociatedAssociated with
Walter de la Mare
AssociatedAssociated with
Philip Guedalla
AssociatedAssociated with
Martin Hardie
(London, England, 1875 - 1952)
AssociatedAssociated with
Sir William Arbuthnot Lane
(Fort George, Inverness, Scotland, 1856 - 1943)
AssociatedAssociated with
James Laver
AssociatedAssociated with
Sir Malcolm Seton
AssociatedAssociated with
Herbert W. J. Paton
AssociatedAssociated with
Professor R H A Plimmer
AssociatedAssociated with
Ralph Straus
Date1937
Object NameMenu Card
Mediumpaper
ClassificationsMcBey
DimensionsOpen: 20.5 x 29.2cm
Closed: 20.5 x 14.6cm
Closed: 20.5 x 14.6cm
AcquisitionPresented in 1988 by Mrs Marguerite McBey.
Copyright© Aberdeen City Council (McBey Collection)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG008362.8
Keywords
Guests invited to the dinner included:
Victor Gollancz (publisher; Socialist, son of Rabbi Professor Sir Hermann Gollancz, and nephew of Professor Sir Israel Gollancz)
Philip Guedalla (writer and politician)
Martin Hardie (artist)
John Henderson (politician)
Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane (surgeon)
James McBey
Professor R.H.A. Plimmer
Sir Malcolm Seton
Ralph Straus
H.W.J. Paton (who regularly corresponded with McBey)
Walter de la Mare (poet, novelist - who also composed the poem on the reverse of the menu card)
James Laver (fashion historian, curator, author and art historian)
Sir George Leveson Gower (senior civil servant)
This object is part of an archive that belonged to Marguerite McBey. As a result of her generosity, Aberdeen Art Gallery holds the largest archive of James McBey's work, including prints, drawings, sketchbooks, oil paintings and memorabilia such as this
late 14th-early 15th Century
Thomas Brown
Bill Baxter
Bill Baxter
Mary Garden
