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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Unpublished drawing by Donald Green: Timothy West (Bolingbroke), Robert Eddison (as his uncle York) with Ian McKellen as King Richard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

McKellen as Hamlet
HAMLET

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


WILD HONEY
Hirschfeld

Javier (Michael Pennington) and Pierre (Ian McKellen)
VENICE PRESERV'D or A Plot Discovered
Hewison

McKellen as Hamlet
HAMLET

Caricature
ACTING SHAKESPEARE (London 1986)
Gary

Computerized Gandalf from EA game
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING

As himself (in costume as Macbeth)
THE SIMPSONS: The Regina Monologues

From The New Yorker
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING
Tom Bachtell

What the hell are you doing to my play?
RICHARD III
Ian McKellen

Richard III
RICHARD III
Jill Jeffrey



Derren Brown

For Time Magazine

Zach Trenholm

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

From The Scotsman 27 August 1969
RICHARD II
Coia

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

Voytek’s costume design for the Marquis
THE MARQUIS OF KEITH
Voytek

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

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