Chromolithograph Vanity Fair Caricature Print 'New York Tribune'

Name: Chromolithograph Vanity Fair Caricature Print 'New York Tribune'
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13223-10
Price: 245 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1902
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 39.5 × 26.8 cm (15.6 × 10.6 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-13223-10

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

A Vanity Fair caricature captioned "New York Tribune", published in London in September 1902. The sheet is a chromolithograph, signed with the "Spy" monogram and printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, with the Vanity Fair masthead and date at the top.

An elderly gentleman with white hair and a neat white beard stands in profile against a gray-green ground. He wears a dark frock coat and striped trousers, holds a pair of pince-nez on a cord in one hand and a slip of paper in the other. The caption names the newspaper, not the man: the New-York Tribune was founded in 1841 by the editor Horace Greeley. As in every plate of the series, the figure is drawn at full length with a caricaturist's emphasis on posture and dress.

Vanity Fair issued one such colored plate with most weekly numbers, and its "Men of the Day" series included a regular stream of American financiers, editors and sportsmen who passed through London.

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