Catalogue information

LastDodo number
3485527
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
Vanity Fair
Technique
Year
1874
Print run
Signed
Publisher
Dimensions
18.5x30
Printing office
Details

The Duke Of Bedford The majority of the prints were colored by chromolithography, a time-consuming Victorian method of printing using different limestone blocks. They were offered as collector's items to encourage sales of the magazine and have been in high demand ever since. Subjects included athletes, lawyers, judges, artists, actors, explorers, politicians and people of vision, many of whom ended up being famous historical figures

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