Scrap Album Vanity Fair: 18 caricatures with accompanying text

Article number 10155694

This scrapbook album gathers eighteen original Vanity Fair caricatures published between 1868 and 1900, accompanied by descriptive and biographical texts. The collection includes satirical portraits of politicians, aristocrats, military figures, writers, financiers and public personalities illustrated by celebrated Vanity Fair artists such as Spy and Ape. The album reflects the visual culture, humour and social commentary of late Victorian Britain and preserves the famous chromolithographic caricature tradition that made Vanity Fair one of the most influential illustrated magazines of the nineteenth century. Lord Rothschild; Walter Gilbey; Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery; John Hay Athole MacDonald; Marquis of Hartington; Walter William Read; Viscount Templeton; Cuthbert Larking; Charles Kearns Deane Tanner; William Bromley-Davenport; James Payn; Lord Revelstoke; Hugh Reginald Haweis; George Granville Bradley; G. A. Baird; James Brand; Charles Floquet; Frederick Charles Philips

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