Vanity Fair 1868 - 1914
The British weekly Vanity Fair magazine began publication in 1868, founded by Thomas Gibson Bowles, the grandfather of the Mitford sisters. Subtitled "A Weekly Show of Political, Social, and Literary Wares," it offered its Victorian and Edwardian readership articles on fashion, current events, reviews of the theatre, new books, reports on social events, and the latest scandals, together with serial fiction, word games, and other trivia.
Bowles wrote much of the magazine himself under various pseudonyms, but contributors included Lewis Carroll and William Wilde. However, the magazine is today best known for its caricatures. More than two thousand of these caricatures appeared, of subjects that included artists, athletes, royalty, statesmen, scientists, authors, actors, soldiers and scholars. Produced by an international group of artists, the illustrations are considered the chief cultural legacy of the magazine and form a pictorial record of the period. Among the artists who contributed illustrations were Max Beerbohm, Sir Leslie Ward (who signed his work "Spy"), the Italians Carlo Pellegrini (known as "Ape") and Liborio Prosperi ("Lib"), the French artist James Jacques Tissot, and the American Thomas Nast.
The famous English publication continued to be published until February 5, 1914.
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