Five individually framed Vanity Fair Statesman prints, color lithographs, each framed in an ornate gilt frame with a green velvet liner, and with glass under the liner. Overall the frames measure approx. 17-1/2" x 13-1/8". They include "Statesman No. 43", "A Scagliola apollo", "Iconoclast", "Queens Lord Steward" and "Campbell Bannerman...The Opposition" (title trimmed off paper).
From 1869 to 1914 the English Vanity Fair weekly magazine featured a full page caricature of a person of prominence at that time. The artists were outstanding caricaturists, the most famous being Sir Leslie Ward, known as " Spy ", who satirized the fashionable social life of the middle and upper classes. Among other artists were Sir Max Beerbohm, who specialized in social and literary personages, and Carlo Pellegrini known as " Ape " the first and some say the best of the early caricaturists. The majority of the prints were colored by chromo-lithography, an arduous Victorian method of printing using several limestone blocks.
150/300 Sold $103.50
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