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Vanity Fair Caricatures Collection

A collection of Vanity Fair Drawings

Vanity Fair (1868 to 1914) was founded in 1868 by Thomas Gibson Bowles, the magazine's long-term editor and owner. It was a popular magazine for those "in the know." written by and for the Victorian and Edwardian establishment, inviting its readers to recognize the vanities of human existence, the publication, through its original format, prose and coloured caricatures of which there were over 2,300.

72 Items

Vanity Fair Print of Sir Henry Cole

George Orby Wombwell, baronet, Vanity fair caricature

Vanity Fair caricature, Victor Henri Rochefort, French politician

Vanity Fair caricature, John Townshend, 5th Marquess Townshend

Vanity Fair Caricature of Benjamin Disraeli, 1869

Vanity Fair Caricature of William Ewart Gladstone, 1869

Vanity fair caricature of Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns

Garnet Joseph Wolseley, Vanity fair caricature

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Victorian British statesman

Vanity Fair Print of Richard Dowse

Vanity Fair Print of Sir John Pender

Vanity Fair Print - George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby

Vanity Fair Print of Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Vanity Fair Print of Sir Francis Grant

Vanity fair caricature of Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford

Vanity Fair Caricature of John Bright, 1869

Vanity Fair Print of George Bentinck (MP)

Vanity Fair caricature, Emile Ollivier, French statesman

Vanity Fair caricature, William Ballantine

Vanity Fair Print - Edward Wilbraham 1st Earl of Lathom

Vanity Fair Print of Sir Fitzroy Edward Kelly

Vanity fair caricature of Queen Isabella II of Spain

Vanity Fair Print of John Everett Millais

Vanity fair caricature of King Leopold II of Belgium

Vanity fair caricature of French Emperor Napoleon III

Vanity Fair Caricature of Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, 1869

Vanity fair caricature of Chief Justice William Bovill

Vanity Fair Print of George Whyte-Melville

Vanity Fair Print - Thomas Erskine May 1st Baron Farnborough

Vanity Fair Print of the 1st Duke of Saldanha

Vanity fair caricature of Pope Pius IX

Vanity Fair Print - William I, German Emperor

Vanity fair caricature of John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

Vanity Fair Print of Matthew Arnold

Albert Grant, Vanity fair caricature, British company promoter and politician

First Violin, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Vanity Fair

Rev. Henry White, Prayers, Vanity fair caricature

Lord Carrington driving a carriage, Vanity fair caricature

Sir Arthur Helps, Council, Vanity fair caricature, 1874

Sir Henry Thompson, British surgeon and polymath, Vanity fair caricature

Marquis D Azeglio, Italian diplomat and politician, Vanity fair caricature

Augustus William Lumley-Savile, Cotillon, Vanity fair caricature

Prince Edmund Batthyany-Strattmann, Vanity fair caricature, Yachting

Sir Oscar Clayton, British surgeon, courtier, socialite. Vanity fair caricature

James Augustus Hessey, Vanity fair caricature

Anthony Panizzi, Principal Librarian British Museum, Vanity fair caricature

The Ocean Race, James Lloyd Ashbury, Vanity fair caricature

the Gulls friend, Christopher Sykes, Vanity fair caricature

Lord Advocate, Edward Gordon, Vanity fair caricature

Master of the Horse, Earl of Bradford, Vanity fair caricature

Turf Reformer Viscount Henry Chaplin, Vanity fair caricature

James Johnstone, The Standard, British newspaper proprietor, Vanity fair caricature

Ralph Allen Gosset, Deputy Serjeant-at-Arms, House of Commons, Vanity fair caricature

Stephen Cave, Vanity fair caricature, British lawyer, Conservative politician

William Cuffe, Earl of Desart, Chesterfield Letters, Vanity fair caricature

Sir John Walter Huddleston, Vanity fair caricature, Victorian criminal lawyer

Herbert Mackworth-Praed, on roller skates, Vanity fair caricature

George Sclater-Booth, 1st Baron Basing, Vanity fair caricature

Francis Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford, Vanity fair caricature

Thomas Edward Taylor, Vanity fair caricature, British Conservative Party politician

John Arthur Roebuck, Victorian British politician, Vanity fair caricature

William Patrick Adam, British colonial administrator and Liberal politician

John Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath, Vanity fair caricature

Sir Charles Forster, Victorian English Liberal politician, Vanity fair caricature

Henry James, lawyer and statesmanm Vanity fair caricature, Victorian

William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, Vanity fair caricature

Vanity fair caricature of Charles Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke

Vanity fair caricature of William Vesey-FitzGerald, Victorian Governor of Bombay 19thj

Vanity fair caricature of Joseph Warner Henley, Victorian British Conservative politician

Vanity fair caricature of Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope

Vanity fair caricature of General William Rose Mansfield

Vanity fair caricature of Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross


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