Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair Magazine was founded in 1868 by Thomas Gibson Bowles and ran until 1914. Its original focus was to depict "A Weekly Show of Political, Social, and Literary Wares." (The Antique Collector, 1987) It depicted Victorian and Edwardian personages of achievers in their field of endeavors. Women were included, as well as important individuals around the world. In the beginning most prints could be had for 5 or 10 English pounds; in today's market they can reach
as high as 1,000.
Medium: Chromolithography unless otherwise noted
Page Size: 15 ½" x 10 ¼" unless otherwise noted
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 The MiteSir George Compton Archibald Arthur $100 Artist: SPY Date: Dec. 19, 1885 |  Ulsterman K.C.Mr. Robert Alfred McCall $100 Artist: SPY Date: Nov. 19, 1903 |  Privy Councillor, Professor and PoliticianJames Bryce $75 Artist: STUFF Date: Feb. 25, 1893 |
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 Force No RemedyParnell, Dillon and Policeman $100 Artist: Harry Furniss Date: Dec. 7, 1881 |  Oxford PhysiologyDr. John Scott Burdon Sanderson $75 Artist: SPY Date: May 17, 1894 |  OssieCaptain Oswald Henry Ames $125 Artist: SPY Date: Feb. 27, 1896 |
 He Suppressed an IsthmusLe Vicomte Ferdinand de Lesseps $75 Date: Nov. 27, 1869 |  G.F.George Payne $100 Artist: APE Date: Sept. 18, 1875 |  North WesternSir George Findlay $75 Artist: SPY Date: Oct. 29, 1892 |
 General Sir James Wolfe Murray$100 Artist: SPY Date: 1905 |  Four in HandBaron Adolph Wilhelm Deichmann $100 Artist: SPY Date: May 14, 1903 |  Finger PrintsEdward Richard Henry $85 Artist: SPY Date: 1905 |
 CharlieLord Carrington $75 Artist: APE Date: Feb. 7, 1874 |  C.U.B.C.Captain Wilfred Hubert Chapman $150 Artist: SPY Date: April 2, 1903 |  Auguste RodinM. Auguste Rodin $100 Artist: IMP Date: Dec. 29, 1904 Information is adhered to the back of the print. |
 GreekThe Rev. Benjamin Jowett $100 Artist: SPY Date: Feb. 26, 1876 |  J. E. WattsJohn Evelyn Watts $100 Artist: AO Date: Oct. 1, 1903 |  Fairford AbbeyEdwin Austin Abbey R.A. $75 Artist: SPY Date: Dec. 29, 1898 Information is adhered to the back of the print. |
 Chief MagistrateSir John Bridge $100 Artist: SPY Date: April 25, 1891 |  SoudanGeneral Sir Arthur Henry Paget $100 Artist: SPY |  JoeSir Joseph Lyons $100 Artist: HCO 1910 |
 O.U.B.C.Charles Murray Pitman $100 Artist: SPY Date: Mar. 28, 1895 |  Maharaja of Patiala$400 Artist: MR Date: Jan 4th, 1900 |  EthelRaymond Broadley Etherington-Smith $100 Artist: SPY |
 The Nitrate KingCol. John Thomas North $75 Artist: SPY Left bottom corner is torn off and discoloration in print |  BillRobert Henry Forster $100 Artist: ELF Date: July 6, 1910 |  The Champion of ChampionsWalter Goodall George $100 Artist: APE Date: Jan. 28, 1888 |
 Tom Loates$175 Artist: SPY Date: Oct. 4, 1890 Discoloration on right side margin and print |  O.U.A.C.Mr Gilbert Jordan $100 Artist: SPY Date: April 1, 1897 |  FoggCharles Thuston Fogg-Elliot $100 Artist: SPY Date: Mar. 22, 1894 |
 A.A.A.Sir Montague Shearman $150 Artist: WAG Date: July 4, 1895 Stain in top left corner |  Otto Madden$125 Artist: G.D.G Date: July 28, 1900 Stain in lower margin |  ExplosivesColonel Vivian Dering Majendie $125 Artist: SPY Date: April 23, 1892 |
 PembrokeThe Rev Ernest John Heriz Smith $125 Artist: HAY Date: Jan. 28, 1888 Bottom left corner is creased |  Latin LiteratureRobinson Ellis $75 Artist: SPY Date: May 24, 1894 1½" tear in left margin |  The EarWilliam Bartlett Dalby $125 Artist: APE Date: Dec. 22, 1888 |
 ''Anything to beat Grant'' - Statesmen, No. 118Horace Greeley $100 Artist: NAST Date: July 20, 1872 |  ''the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table''Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes $125 Artist: SPY Date: June 19, 1886 |  ''A Hard Rider''Mr. Arthur James $125 Artist: Spy Date: May 26, 1904 |
 The Lord Annaly$75 Artist: K Date: Nov 27, 1912 |  ''An Old Master''Viscount Portman $100 Artist: SPY Date: Nov. 3, 1898 There is damage to the back of the print-was adhered to another paper at one point |  AstronomyJames Ludovic Lindsay $100 Artist: SPY Date: May 11, 1878 |
 ''Khartoum''Herbert Kitchener $125 Artist: SPY Date: Feb. 23, 1899 |  ''The Lord Chief Baron''The Right Honorable Sir Fitz Roy Edward Kelly $150 Date: Nov. 4, 1871 |  Major EsterhazyCharles Marie Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy $100 Artist: GUTH Date: May 26, 1898 |
 ApeCarlo Pellegrini $165 Artist: AHM (Arthur H. Marks) Date: April 27, 1889 |  The Premier BaronWilliam FitzGerald-de Ros $100 Artist: SPY |  The KaidGeneral Sir Harry Aubrey Kaid De MaClean $100 Artist: SPY Date: 1904 |
 The Glorious EastMr. Carl Haag $100 Artist: GO Date:1884 |  Modern StrategyField Marshal Count Von Moltke $100 Artist: GO Date: 1884 |  He Painted 'The Doctor'Sir Luke Fildes $100 Artist: SPY Date:1892 |
 Cuch BeharMaharaja of Cuch Behar $100 Date: 1901 |  Chitty's LeaderMr. Edward Widdrington Byrne $150 Artist: SPY Date: 1896 |  Chelsea HospitalSir Henry Wylie Norman $100 Artist: SPY Date: 1903 |
 ArgonJohn William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh $100 Artist: FTD Date: 1899 |  TarkaHarcourt Gilbey Gold $125 Artist: SPY Date: 1899 |  Spy$125 Artist: PAL Date: 1889 |
 Mr. Frank Crisp$100 Artist: SPY Date: 1890 |  Master of the HorseBernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard $100 Artist: SPY |  He insists that his pen is mightier than his swordEgerton Castle $125 Artist: SPY |
 Cold SteelCaptain Alfred Hutton $100 Artist: JEST Date: 1903 |  Mr. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt$125 Artist: SPY |  Li Hung Chang$125 Artist: GUTH Date: 1896 |
 China in LondonChang Ta-Jen $125 Artist: SPY Date: 1903 |  AutomobileJules-Albert de Dion $125 Artist: GUTH Date: 1899 |  Army MedicalSurgeon General Jameson $125 Artist: SPY Date: 1901 |
 East BirminghamSir John Benjamin Stone $100 Artist: Leslie Ward (SPY) Date: 1902 |  Claudie/AviatorClaude Grahame-White $125 Date: 1911 Medium: Photo-mechanical |  Mr. John Ball Jr$425 - FRAMED Date: 1892 |
 Empires Makers and BreakersCecil Rhodes and Others $150 Artist: STUFF Date: 1897 Double page |  HarrowProfessor $100 Artist: GAF Date: 1898 |  Sciences and SportMalcolm Burr $100 Artist: WH Date: 1913 |
 In Vanity FairGroup previously depicted in Vanity Fair. $200 Date: 1890 Double page |  Scottish HorseWilliam Murray, Marquess of Tullibardine $125 Artist: Leslie Ward (SPY) |  Hard HitterCaptain Edgeworth Johnstone $150 Artist: Leslie Ward (SPY) Date: 1896 |
 HydrophobiaDr. Louis Pasteur $75 Artist: Theobald Chartran (T) Date: 1876 |  He wrote 'Sapho'Alphonse Daudet $75 Artist: GUTH Date: 1892 |  Fred WebbA Jockey $100 Artist: LIB Date: 1889 |
 Heads of the LawChief Justice and Others $150 Artist: Leslie Ward (SPY) Date: 1902 |  At Cowes"Yachting Devotes" $150 Date: 1894 |  Li Hsi Emperor of Korea$150 Artist: PRY Date: 1899 |
 A JudgeRev Cecil Legard, Show Dog Judge $100 Artist: CB |  BargraveMr. Henry Bargrave Fennelly, QC. $100 Artist: Leslie Ward (SPY) Date: 1898 |  A General GroupRoberts, Kitchner, & others $150 Artist: Leslie Ward (SPY) Date: 1900 |
 BuckMr. Walter S. Buckmaster $250 Artist: Leslie Ward (SPY) Date: 1907 |  BenjieBenjamin Cotton $225 Artist: Leslie Ward (SPY) Date: 1912 |  CabsThe Earl of Talbot and Shrewsbury $125 Artist: Leslie Ward (SPY) Date: 1903 |
 War and PeaceCount Lyof Tolstoi /Tolstoy $100 Artist: SNAPP Date: 1901 |  BarnumPhineas Taylor Barnum $100 Artist: Leslie Ward (SPY) Date: 1889 |  I SayMr. Neil Haig $125 GAF Date: 1898 |
 The DemonGeorge Fordham $125 Artist: Leslie Ward (SPY) |  The Winning Post$250 Artist: LIB Date: 1888 |  A SymphonyJames Abbott McNeill Whistler $100 Artist: Leslie Ward (SPY) Date: 1878 |
 Tattersalls$150 Artist: LIB Date: 1886 Medium: Colored Lithograph |  U.S.A.Mr. Theodore Roosevelt $200 Artist: Flagg Date: 1902 |  On the TerraceBalfour, Chamberlain, Gorst,Temple, Mundella, & McCarthy on the terrace of Parliament $125 Artist: Leslie Ward (SPY) Date: 1883 |
 J. Otho Paget$150 Artist: CB Date: 1902 |  The Shah of Persia$125 Artist: SPY Date: 1903 |  Mr. William Black$125 Artist: SPY Date: 1891 |
 Promenade MatinaleQueen Victoria $150 Date: 1901 |  The Deutsch PrizeSantos Dumont $100 Artist: Geo. Hum. Date: 1901 |  Jan KubelikCzech Violinist and Composer $125 Artist: SPY Date: 1903 |