4462 Artwork | SAHRIS

General

Object Auto ID

74563

Alternate Codes

230941

Common Name

Lithograph

Classified Name

PLATE, LITHOGRAPH

Local Name

Ten cartoons and caricatures of South African personalities from Vanity Fair

Quantity

1.00

Object Description

The Parliament Collection:
Ten lithographs of white men who were famous in their lifetimes. They were either South African or had connections with South Africa. One figure per page, seen full length against an empty background. Either facing the viewer, or three-quarter view, or in profile. Typed contents list glued onto first page (scan linked), followed by two blank pages. Eleven blank pages at the back.

Provenance

Mendelssohn Bequest 1922

Description

Technique Types

Lithography

Distinguishing Features

Caricatures and cartoons 1899 - 1903 President Steyn Sir Godfrey Lagden; "Basutoland" General Kelly-Kenny; "6th. Division" Earl of Dundonald; "a Cavalry Reformer" Generaal Christiaan De Wet General Plumer Gen. Sir F. Forestier-Walker; "Shookey" Sir William Crookes; "ubi Crookes ibi lux" Colonel Robert George Broadwood; "Natal" Lord Edward Cecil; "at Mafeking"

Inscriptions

For all entries: b.c title code or other name for the represented individual; t.l. "Vanity Fair", t.r. date published. Full names handwritten in pencil in bottom margin. Written on Contents page below typed list: Vanity Fair Caricatures, SA Notabilities 1900-03, In Additions.

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Dimension Comments

Bound in an album; Paper size 382 x 250 mm.

History

Object Age Comment

1899 - 1903

Maker Comment

WARD, Sir Leslie (pseudonym Spy), 1851-1922 WAG [Witherby, A G] EBN [Norton, Eardley]

User Comment

Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd - lithographers

Collector Comment

Coloured lithograph

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