"Vanity Fair" caricatures

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All prices are in UK pounds. Sizes are width by height in centimetres for the actual image area, not including any titles (1 inch = 2.54 centimetres.)
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A series of colour prints after pictures by "Ape" published in Vanity Fair, 1871 & 1872.

These are all chromolithographs (an early form of colour printing) and are superb caricatures of important people of the day. The magazine's founder and editor, Thomas Gibson Bowles, described these caricatures thus; "There are grim faces made more grim, grotesque figures made more grotesque, and dull people made duller by the genius of our talented collaborater 'Ape'; but there is nothing that has been treated with a set purpose to make it something that it was not already originally in a lesser degree."
The page size is 23 x 35.5 cms (9 x 11 inches) and the images generally fill the page with about 2 cms (1 inch) margin all around. All are in good condition unless stated. Each is suppled with the accompanying page of text.
Usual discount for multiple item orders.

* All my Vanity Fair antique prints are now moved to the new catalogue pages
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