Chromolithograph Vanity Fair Caricature Print 'New York Herald'

Name: Chromolithograph Vanity Fair Caricature Print 'New York Herald'
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13223-9
Price: 245 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1884
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 39.7 × 27.2 cm (15.6 × 10.7 in)
Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age and use. General age-related toning, minor wear. Blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Places: New York
Reference: BG-13223-9

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

James Gordon Bennett Jr., publisher of the New York Herald, in a Vanity Fair caricature captioned "New York Herald" and dated 15 November 1884. The sheet is a chromolithograph printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son.

Bennett sits on a leather trunk covered in luggage labels from Paris and London, a clear nod to his life as an American who spent most of it in Europe. He wears a bowler hat, a gray suit and white spats, holds a cane between his knees with a cigar in his mouth, and looks away to one side. A copy of "The New York Herald" is pinned to the upper left of the plate.

Bennett was generally known as Gordon Bennett to distinguish him from his father, James Gordon Bennett Sr. (1795 to 1872), who emigrated from Scotland and founded the paper. Among his sporting accomplishments he organized both the first polo match and the first tennis match in the United States, and he personally won the first trans-oceanic yacht race. He also sponsored explorers, including Henry Morton Stanley's trip to Africa to find David Livingstone and the ill-fated USS Jeannette expedition toward the North Pole.

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