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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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
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 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
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 ''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 |
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 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 |
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 ''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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 Cold SteelCaptain Alfred Hutton
$100
Artist: JEST
Date: 1903 |  Mr. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt$125
Artist: SPY |  Li Hung Chang$125
Artist: GUTH
Date: 1896 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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