Liborio Prosperi (35 results)

No Binding. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. "Lib" was the pseudonym for Liborio Prosperi (1854-1928), an Italian artist and caricaturist who was a prominent contributor to the original British Vanity Fair magazine. Born in Foligno, Italy, he was part of an international group of artists recruited (illustrator). 32 cm x 19 cm. In acid free Mylar sleeve. Chromolilthograph. Margins trimmed. Baron Moritz von Hirsch auf Gereuth (1831-1896), a famous German-Jewish philanthropist and financier known for his massive wealth and passion for horse racing. The print depicts the Baron wearing a bowler hat and featuring his characteristic prominent mustache. Vanity Fair was a British weekly magazine that was published from 1868 to 1914. Founded by Thomas Gibson Bowles in London, the magazine included articles on fashion, theatre, current events as well as word games and serial fiction. The cream of the period's "society magazines", it is best known for its witty prose and caricatures of famous people of Victorian and Edwardian society, including artists, athletes, royalty, statesmen, scientists, authors, actors, business people and scholars. Taking its title from Thackeray's popular satire on early 19th-century British society, Vanity Fair was not immediately successful and struggled with competition from rival publications. Bowles then promised his readers "Some Pictorial Wares of an entirely novel character", and on 30 January 1869, a full-page caricature of Benjamin Disraeli appeared. This was the first of over 2,300 caricatures to be published. According to the National Portrait Gallery in London, "Vanity Fair's illustrations, instantly recognizable in terms of style and size, led to a rapid increase in demand for the magazine. It gradually became a mark of honor to be the 'victim' of one of its numerous caricaturists. Bowles' witty accompanying texts, full of insights and innuendos, certainly contributed towards the popularity of these images".

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10.5 inches. Good. Moderate foxing in the margins and some spots on the image. Heavy foxing on verso. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on December 4, 1886, depicting Matthew Dawson, a renowned racehorse trainer. Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10 inches. Very Good. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on December 6, 1890, depicting Howard John Kennard (1829-1896), a financier, ironmaster and railwayman.Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10 inches. Very Good. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on April 26, 1890, depicting Lord Marcus Talbot de la Poer Beresford, KCVO (25 December 1848 - 16 December 1922), an equerry and racing manager.Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10 inches. Very Good+. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on February 22, 1890, depicting Sir Francis Carruthers Gould (2 December 1844 - 1925), a British caricaturist and political cartoonist, born in Barnstaple, Devon. He published as F. Carruthers Gould and signed his cartoons FCG.Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10 inches. Very Good. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on July 26, 1890, depicting Moritz Freiherr von Hirsch auf Gereuth (9 December 1831 - 21 April 1896), commonly known as Maurice de Hirsch, a German Jewish financier and philanthropist who set up charitable foundations to promote Jewish education and improve the lot of oppressed European Jewry. Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10 inches. Very Good. Foxing on verso, not affecting front. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on December 21, 1889, depicting Charles Robert Barry QC, PC (3 January 1823[1] - 15 May 1897), an Irish politician and lawyer who rose to become a Lord Justice of Appeal for Ireland.Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10 inches. Very Good. Minor foxing in right margin. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on May 17, 1890, depicting James Weatherby, of the famous firm of race horse auctioneers.Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10 inches. Very Good. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on August 16, 1890, depicting Sir Arthur Bower Forwood, 1st Baronet, PC (23 June 1836 - 27 September 1898), an English merchant, shipowner, and politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1885 until his death, and in 1895 he was created a baronet.Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10 inches. Very Good+. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on February 9, 1889, depicting Sir William Cuthbert Quilter, 1st Baronet (29 January 1841 - 18 November 1911), an English stock broker, art collector and Liberal/Liberal Unionist politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1906.Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10 inches. Very Good. Wear and small crease at top edge, not affecting image. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on June 1, 1889, depicting Frederick John Barrett (1867 - 21 January 1895), an English horse racing jockey. His greatest success came in 1888, when he won The Derby and the Jockeys' Championship.Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10 inches. Very Good. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on October 12, 1889, depicting John Porter (2 March 1838 - 21 February 1922), an English Thoroughbred flat racing trainer whose horses won the English Triple Crown three times. He was described by the National Horseracing Museum as "undoubtedly the most successful trainer of the Victorian era."Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10 inches. Very Good+. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on September 14, 1889, depicting John Corlett.Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10 inches. Very Good. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on September 6, 1890, depicting Sir James Percy Miller, 2nd Baronet, DSO (22 October 1864 - 22 January 1906), a British soldier, known as a racehorse owner. Over the 17 years when he had horses in training, Miller won 161 races, worth £114,005.Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10 inches. Very Good+. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on August 10, 1889, depicting Frederic E. Webb (1853-1917), a British Classic winning jockey.Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10 inches. Very Good. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on August 24, 1889, depicting Maj EH Egerton.Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10 inches. Very Good. Minor foxing in bottom margin, not affecting image. One page biography of subject laid in. Scarce. Published on January 5, 1889, depicting Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill (13 February 1849 - 24 January 1895), a British aristocrat and politician. Churchill was a Tory radical and coined the term "Tory democracy".Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10 inches. Very Good. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on October 18, 1890, depicting Marcus Henry Milner, DSO, MVO (16 April 1864 - 16 January 1939), an English racehorse trainer, soldier and civil servant and a cricketer who played two first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University in 1884.Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10 inches. Very Good+. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on June 7, 1890, depicting Sir Andrew Barclay Walker, 1st Baronet (15 December 1824 - 27 February 1893), a brewer and Liverpool Councillor.Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10 inches. Very Good+. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on April 20, 1889, depicting George Higginson Allsopp (28 March 1846 - 9 September 1907), an English brewer and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1906.Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10 inches. Very Good. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on March 23, 1889, depicting Mr JT Mackenzie of Kintail.Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10.5 inches. Very Good+. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on May 22, 1886, depicting Charles Wood (1854-1945), an English flat racing jockey.Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10.5 inches. Very Good. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on July 17, 1886, depicting William Hood Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran, PC, DL, JP (26 February 1849 - 17 May 1925), known as Sir William Walrond, Bt, between 1889 and 1905, of Bradfield House, Uffculme, Devon, a British Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1906 when he was raised to the peerage. Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10.5 inches. Very Good. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on July 3, 1886, depicting William George Robert Craven, 4th Earl of Craven OBE (16 December 1868 - 10 July 1921), styled Viscount Uffington from 1868 to 1883, a British peer and Liberal politician.Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10.5 inches. Very Good+. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on July 24, 1886, depicting George Manners Astley, 20th Baron Hastings, 10th Baronet Astley (4 April 1857 - 18 September 1904) succeeded to the Hastings barony upon the death of his unmarried brother in 1875.Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10.5 inches. Very Good+. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on May 8, 1886, depicting Edmund Tattersall (1816-1898), Director of Tattersall's horse auctioneersVanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10.5 inches. Very Good+. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on January 30, 1886, depicting Richard William Church (25 April 1815 - 6 December 1890), an English churchman and writer, known latterly as Dean Church. He was a close friend of John Henry Newman and allied with the Tractarian movement. Later he moved from Oxford academic life to some prominence in the Church of England.Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10.5 inches. Very Good. Light crease along bottom left edge. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on November 6, 1886, depicting Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling (21 December 1832 - 12 January 1911), a British banker who founded the bank of Samuel Montagu & Co. He was a philanthropist and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1900, and was later raised to the peerage. Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10.5 inches. Very Good+. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on September 4, 1886, depicting Robert Peck, a race horse trainer. Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.

Condition: Good. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10.5 inches. Very Good+. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on April 24, 1886, depicting Lionel Louis Cohen (1832 - 26 June 1887), an English financier, politician, and communal worker. He married Esther Moses, daughter of Jacob Henry Moses, in 1856. He served as a trustee and later manager of the London Stock Exchange, and became the head of his father's firm Louis Cohen & Sons. He retired in 1885 on being elected Conservative member of Parliament.Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry.