Equestrian Elegance: Martinez de Hoz, The Argentine Sportsman, Vanity Fair 1910

Name: Equestrian Elegance: Martinez de Hoz, The Argentine Sportsman, Vanity Fair 1910
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13102-11
Price: 245 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1910
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 40 × 27 cm (15.7 × 10.6 in)
Condition: Good. Given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
Period: The Twentieth Century
Places: Argentina
Reference: BG-13102-11

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

Martinez de Hoz, "An Argentine Sportsman", a color-printed caricature from the Vanity Fair supplement, published November 23, 1910. The plate is lettered "An Argentine Sportsman" with the sitter's name, "Martinez de Hoz", in brackets at the lower right, and signed "WHO" at the lower right of the image. The printer's imprint, Hentschel Colortype, London, appears at the lower left.

The subject stands full length against a pale wash of gray and blue, in a long fawn overcoat, gray top hat and dark striped trousers. A moustache and a firm expression mark his face. He holds a pair of tan gloves in his hands, and a long riding whip loops over his arm and down to a cane.

Vanity Fair issued color caricatures of public figures, and this plate is from its supplement, which in this period was printed in the Hentschel color process. The title identifies the sitter as a sportsman of Argentina, the kind of wealthy rancher and horseman who often visited London in the years before the First World War.

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