4461 Artwork | SAHRIS

General

Object Auto ID

74552

Alternate Codes

230940

Common Name

Lithograph

Classified Name

PLATE, LITHOGRAPH

Local Name

Caricatures of South African personalities from Vanity Fair

Quantity

1.00

Object Description

The Parliament Collection:
31 lithographs of well-known men, either South African or British, who played a role in South Africa. With the exception of King Cetshwayo (No 10) and Lady Florence Dixie (No 11) they are all white men. There is a single full-length figure per page, shown from the front, in three-quarter view or in profile view, against an empty background. Many have biographical texts glued onto the page opposite the image. Typed list of contents on frontispage (linked).

Provenance

Mendelssohn Bequest 1922

Description

Technique Types

Lithography

Distinguishing Features

Caricatures Abercorn, Duke of Bailey, Sir Abe Barkly, Sir Henry Barnato, Barney Beach, W.W.B. Bethell, Alfred J. Buller, Sir Redvers H Cetewayo [Chief Ceshwayo] Colenso, Bishop Colvile, Col. Henry E. Currie, Sir Donald Derby, Lord Disraeli Benjamin Dixie, Lady Florence Frere, Sir Bartle Froude, James Anthony Gladstone, William E. Haggard, Sir Rider Hely-Hutchinson, Sir W.F. Loch, Sir Henry B. Jameson, Leander Starr Kimberly, Lord Lugard, Frederick J.D. Maguire, Rochfort Mesey-Thompson, Sir H.M. Methuen, Lord Milner, Sir Alfred Rhodes, Cecil John Rhodes, Francis William Selous, Frederick C.

Inscriptions

b.c. title code or other name for the represented individual; t.l. "Vanity Fair", t.r. date published.

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Dimension Comments

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

History

Object Age Comment

1869 - 1900

Maker Comment

WARD, Sir Leslie (pseudonym Spy), 1851-1922 Chartran, Theobald (signed his works "T"), 1849 ? 1907 Pellegrini, Carlo (pseudonyms Singe and Ape), 1839 ? 1889; and unidentified others

Collector Comment

Coloured lithograph

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