Sketched at Edinburgh Festival. Ian McKellen (Dr. Faustus with Bad and Good Angels) DR FAUSTUS
Unpublished drawing by Donald Green: Timothy West (Bolingbroke), Robert Eddison (as his uncle York) with Ian McKellen as King Richard
Donald Green
Ian McKellen as King Richard II in Act 2 armour, sketched at Assembly Hall, Edinburgh.
Hewison’s cartoon in Punch: Dr. Faustus holding hand puppets of Good and Bad Angels (Ian McKellen) with Mephistophiles (Emrys James) DR FAUSTUS Hewison
Ian McKellen rehearsing as Edward II onstage at Assembly Hall, Edinburgh with Timothy West (Young Mortimer). (Note the flowered shirt and generous tie-knot of the period.) EDWARD II
Cartoon by Quentin Blake in Punch. This drawing, now in the possession of my sister Jean, amuses us both because the older figure reminds us of our paternal grandfather in his later years. THEIR VERY OWN AND GOLDEN CITY Quentin Blake
Ian McKellen as A Protestant Evangelist drawn backstage at Chichester Festival Theatre by Edward Petherbridge who was also in the cast. ARMSTRONG'S LAST GOODNIGHT Edward Petherbridge
Cartoon: by Hewison in Punch Magazine: Jennifer Hilary (Zoe) and Ian McKellen (Godfrey) - I bought the original drawing which accompanied the Punch review, starting a collection of Hewison’s work which I discontinued a decade or so later. A SCENT OF FLOWERS Hewison
Hewsion’s cartoon: Ian McKellen (Face in disguise as the alchemist’s apprentice) THE ALCHEMIST Hewison
Timothy Goodchild’s costume design for Richard II’s heavy ceremonial gown, glittered with gold paint, golden thread and some metallic milk-bottle tops. RICHARD II Tim Goodchild
Ian McKellen as Richard II RICHARD II Jill Bennett
Cartoon from Punch by Hewison: Judi Dench (in Act 3 costume), Ian McKellen (Act 2), and Ian McShane (Act I) THE PROMISE (1967) Hewison
Hewison’s cartoon for: Punch Ian McKellen (Richard II) RICHARD II Hewison
For the National Portrait Gallery
Clive Smith
From Punch by Hewison: Angela Scoular, Ian McKellen,(Harold Gorringe) and James Bolam in the dark in Black Comedy. THE WHITE LIARS / BLACK COMEDY Hewison
Portrait by Juan Fernando Bastos for Gay and Lesbian Review
Hewison’s cartoon for Punch (23 June 1976): Ian McKellen (King Leontes lamenting his wife’s death in Act 5), Barbara Leigh Hunt (Paulina presenting the new-born Perdita in Act 3), Michael Williams (flashing as Autolycus in Act 4) THE WINTER'S TALE Hewison
Clive Francis’s caricature of Ian McKellen (Platonov Act 3) sold as a postcard at Royal National Theatre bookshop WILD HONEY Clive Francis
Caricature from newspaper
Hewison’s cartoon for Punch (18 August 1971): James Cairncross (First Gravedigger) with Ian McKellen (Hamlet) and Yorick’s skull HAMLET Hewison
Michael Annals gave me this design for Hamlet’s Act One costume on the first night. HAMLET Michael Annals
Derek Jacobi (Moon) rehearsing on stage of Phoenix Theatre Leicester and director Ian McKellen with Peter Laird (Inspector Hound THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND
Hewison’s cartoon for Punch (23 October 1975): Joe Melia (Sergeant Fielding), Judi Dench (The Nurse), Ian McKellen (Aubrey) at the play’s climax TOO TRUE TO BE GOOD Hewison
Hewsion’s cartoon in Punch (23 May 1979): Tom Bell (Horst), Ian McKellen (Max) labouring at Dachau. This is a rare example of Hewison’s commenting on a play directly in words rather than in images. BENT (1979) Hewison
Hewison’s cartoon for Punch (9 November 1974): Ian Richardson (Ernst Scholz), Ian McKellen (The Marquis of Keith), Sara Kestelman (Mona) THE MARQUIS OF KEITH Hewison
Hewison’s cartoon for Punch (1 August 1977): Ian McKellen (Karsten Bernick) and Mike Gwilym (Johann Tonneson) PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY Hewison