Subjects of Vanity Fair caricatures (1868-1869)

Scope of the Project

This project is to identify profiles who were subjects of Vanity Fair caricatures between 1868 and 1869, and attach an image of the caricature to the relevant profiles. The profiles themselves will not be attached to the project, just the image of the caricature.

Each subject of a caricature listed below is attributed as follows:

• Date of Publication
• Name of Subject
• Caricature caption Each caricature has been attributed in the same manner. Links the identified Geni profile and caricature are provided.

Background

A full-page, colour lithograph of a contemporary celebrity or dignitary appeared in most issues, and it is for these caricatures that Vanity Fair is best known then and today. Subjects included artists, athletes, royalty, statesmen, scientists, authors, actors, soldiers, religious personalities, business people and scholars. More than two thousand of these images appeared, and they are considered the chief cultural legacy of the magazine, forming a pictorial record of the period. They were produced by an international group of artists, including Max Beerbohm, Sir Leslie Ward (who signed his work "Spy" and "Drawl"), the Italians Carlo Pellegrini ("Singe" and "Ape"), Melchiorre Delfico ("Delfico") and Liborio Prosperi ("Lib"), the French artist James Jacques Tissot (Coïdé), and the American Thomas Nast.

References

• Wikipedia contributors. "List of Vanity Fair (British magazine) caricatures." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
• "The Vanity Fair Album. List of Cartoons and Volumes from the foundation of Vanity Fair in 1868"; London, "Vanity Fair"; 1895

List of Vanity Fair (British magazine) caricatures (1868-1869)

• 1869-01-30 - The Rt Hon B. Disraeli (caricature) - He educated the Tories and dished the Whigs to pass Reform, but to have become what he is from what he was is the greatest Reform of all
• 1869-02-06 - The Rt Hon W. E. Gladstone (caricature) - Were he a worse man, he would be a better statesman
• 1869-02-13 - The Rt Hon J. Bright (caricature) - Will the sentimental orator be lost in the practical Minister, or will both be extinguished?
• 1869-02-20 - Mrs Mary Ann Starr (caricature) - I felt very uncomfortable
• 1869-02-27 - The Rt Hon Robert Lowe (caricature) - An enemy to democracy, yet a professor of liberal principles, which tend to democracy; the combination will one day make him Prime Minister of England
• 1869-03-06 - The Rt Hon W. E. Forster (caricature) - If he is not an advanced liberal, it is for want of advancing himself
• 1869-03-13 - Earl Granville (caricature) - The ablest professor in the cabinet of the tact by which power is kept: it is his mission to counteract the talk by which it is won and lost
• 1869-03-20 - The Lord Chancellor (caricature) - When he who has too little piety is impossible, and he who has too much is impracticable; he who has equal piety and ability becomes Lord Chancellor
• 1869-03-27 - The Marquess of Hartington (caricature) - His ability and industry would deserve respect even in a man; in a Marquis they command admiration
• 1869-04-03 - The Rt Hon E. Cardwell (caricature) - If the State is happy that has no history, thrice happy is the Statesman who makes none
• 1869-04-10 - The Rt Hon James Stansfeld (caricature) - Pour encourager les autres
• 1869-04-17 - The Duke of Argyll (caricature) - God bless the Duke of Argyll
• 1869-04-24 - The Earl of Clarendon (caricature) - To say that he is the best foreign minister in the country is not much as foreign ministers go; but as times go it is a great deal
• 1869-05-01 - Viscount Sydney (caricature) - He received the Royal Commands and lengthened the skirts of the Ballet
• 1869-05-08 - Earl Grey (caricature) - A privileged person
• 1869-05-15 - Lord Westbury (caricature) - An eminent Christian man
• 1869-05-22 - Earl de Grey and Ripon (caricature) - Qualis ab inepto
• 1869-05-29 - The Earl of Derby (caricature) - It is his mission to stem the tide of democracy
• 1869-06-05 - Earl Russell (caricature) - The greatest liberal statesman of modern times
• 1869-06-12 - The Rt Hon G. J. Goschen (caricature) - The Theory of Foreign Exchanges
• 1869-06-19 - The Rt Hon H. C. E. Childers (caricature) - A returned colonist
• 1869-06-26 - Lord Stanley (caricature) - He speaks with one party and acts with the other
• 1869-07-03 - The Bishop of Peterborough (caricature) - If eloquence could justify injustice, he would have saved the Irish Church
• 1869-07-10 - The Marquess of Salisbury (caricature) - He is too honest a Tory for his party and his time
• 1869-07-17 - The Earl of Kimberley (caricature) - He improves, if possible, but he accepts always the accomplished fact
• 1869-07-24 - The Bishop of Oxford (caricature) - Not a brawler
• 1869-07-31 - Lord Cairns (caricature) - When Birth cannot lead Brains must
• 1869-08-07 - The Duke of Somerset (caricature) - Proud and sincere, yet liberal and just, he refused to serve under the most humble of Premiers
• 1869-08-14 - The Rt Hon C. S. Fortescue (caricature) - He married Lady Waldegrave and governed Ireland
• 1869-08-21 - The Rt Hon H. A. Bruce (caricature) - He has gained credit by converting himself to the Ballot; he would gain greater credit by converting himself into an ex-secretary of State for the Home Department
• 1869-08-28 - The Rt Hon A. H. Layard (caricature) - He combines the love of truth and art with equal devotion and success
• 1869-09-04 - Napoleon III (caricature) - La regime parlementaire
• 1869-09-11 - The Earl of Carnarvon (caricature) - The whole life of that great party to which I thought I had the honour to belong was nothing but a mere organised hypocrisy
• 1869-09-18 - Isabella II of Spain (caricature) - She has throughout her life been betrayed by those who should have been most faithful to her
• 1869-09-25 - The Duke of Abercorn (caricature) - Promoted from a Viceroyalty to a Dukedom
• 1869-10-02 - Mr M. E. Grant Duff MP (caricature) - A philosophic liberal
• 1869-10-09 - Leopold II of the Belgians (caricature) - Un roi constitutionnel
• 1869-10-16 - Alexander II of Russia (caricature) - La civilisation Russe
• 1869-10-23 - Mr A. S. Ayrton MP (caricature) - Mind and Morality
• 1869-10-30 - Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey (caricature) - Ote-toi de la que je m'y mette
• 1869-11-06 - The Rev Frederick Temple D.D. (caricature) - He has displayed ability in the free handling of religious subjects, and has nevertheless been made a Bishop
• 1869-11-13 - The Earl of Shaftesbury (caricature) - He is not as other men are, for he is never influenced by party motives
• 1869-11-20 - The Rt Hon Lord J. J. R. Manners MP (caricature) - Let arts and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility
• 1869-11-27 - Le Viscomte de Lesseps (caricature) - He suppressed an isthmus
• 1869-12-04 - The Earl of Zetland (caricature) - The Most Worshipful Grand Master
• 1869-12-11 - The Rt Hon Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet (caricature) - The Lord Chief Justice of England
• 1869-12-18 - Lord Penzance (caricature) - A Judge and Peer
• 1869-12-25 - The Archbishop of Canterbury (caricature) - An earnest and liberal primate

Wikipedia contributors, 'List of Vanity Fair (British magazine) caricatures (1868–69)', Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 4 September 2013, 23:28 UTC, <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Vanity_Fair_(Brit...> [accessed 13 April 2014]