Drawing

Painted illustration created for publication in a newspaper/illustrated magazine and published in vol.100 of The Illustrated London News in 1892. It shows the Holy Grail scene in a performance of Wilhelm Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) opera Parsifal at Bayreuth and was painted by the artist A. Forestier (1854-1930) to illustrate an article by Mark Twain (1835-1910).

This item is one of several theatrical drawings from a collection of sketches commissioned from contemporary artists to be printed in illustrated magazines. The collection was donated to the museum by Sir William James Ingram in 1914.