Vanity Fair chromolithography publications.
Set of 3 Vanity Fair lithography publications
1. Portrait of John Passmore Edwards. Statesmen. No. 475 by the caricaturist Ape.
John Passmore Edwards (24 March 1823 – 22 April 1911) was a British journalist, newspaper owner, and philanthropist who briefly served as a Liberal Party Member of Parliament.
2. Portrait of George Augustus Sala. Men of the Day. No. 110 by the caricaturist Ape.
George Augustus Henry Fairfield Sala (24 November 1828 – 8 December 1895) was an author and journalist who wrote extensively for the Illustrated London News as G. A. S. and was most famous for his articles and leaders for The Daily Telegraph. He founded his own periodical, Sala's Journal, and the Sydney Savage Club. The former was unsuccessful but the latter still continues.
3. Portrait of Hugh Reginald Haweis. Men of the Day. No. 410 by the caricaturist Ape.
H.R. Haweis was born in Egham, Surrey in 1838, the son of the Rev. John Oliver Willyams Haweis of Brighton, Canon of Chichester. He was educated privately in Sussex and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1860. He travelled in Italy and served under Garibaldi in 1860. On his return to England he was ordained and held various curacies in London, becoming in 1866 incumbent of St James's, Marylebone.
Carlo Pellegrini (caricaturist):
Carlo Pellegrini (25 March 1839 – 22 January 1889), who did much of his work under the pseudonym of Ape, was an Italian-British artist who served from 1869 to 1889 as a caricaturist for Vanity Fair magazine, a leading journal of London society. His work for the magazine made his reputation and he became its most influential artist.
Dimensons: 48x31 cm frame included