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We sell original Vanity Fair prints (lithographs), not reproductions.
The normal size of a Vanity Fair print is 10½ by 15½ inches, though this does vary
somewhat by year and publisher over the life of "Vanity Fair."
Whenever possible, we provide the original descriptive text or a copy thereof.

VANITY FAIR "Spy" PRINTS ~ POLITICAL FIGURES (1869-1870)

The Right Honourable
John Bright
Feb. 13, 1869

"Will the sentimental orator be lost in the practical Minister, or will both be extinguished?"

$35

The Right Honourable
W. E. Forster
March 6, 1869

"If he is not an advanced liberal, it is for want of advancing himself."

$30

Earl Granville
March 13, 1869

"The ablest professor in the cabinet of the tact by which power is kept: it is his mission to counteract the talk by which it is won and lost."

$35

The Marquis of Hartington
March 27, 1869

"His ability and industry would deserve respect even in a man; in a Marquis they command admiration."

The Right Honourable
Edward Cardwell
April 3, 1869

"If the state is happy that has no history, thrice happy is the Statesman who makes none."

$30

The Right Honourable
James Stanfeld
April 10, 1869

"Pour encourager les autres."

$35

The Earl of Clarendon
April 24, 1869

"To say that he is the best foreign minister in the country is not much as foreign ministers go; but as times go it is a great deal."

$35

Viscount Sydney
May 1, 1869

"He received the Royal Commands and lengthened the skirts of the Ballet."

$40

Earl Grey
May 8, 1869

"A privileged person."

Lord Westbury
May 15, 1869

"An eminent Christian Man."

$35

Earl de Grey and Ripon
May 22, 1869

"Qualis ab inepto."

$45

Earl Russell
June 5, 1869

"The Greatest Liberal Statesman of Modern Times."

The Right Honourable G.J. Goschen
June 12, 1869

"The Theory of Foreign Exchanges."

$35

Lord Stanley
June 26, 1869

"He speaks with one party and acts with the other."

$30

The Marquis of Salisbury
July 10,1869

"He is too honest a Tory for his party and his time."

Earl Kimberley
July 16, 1869

"He improves, if possible, but he accepts always the accomplished fact."

$30

Lord Cairns
July 31,1869

"When Birth cannot lead Brains must."

The Duke of Somerset
August 7, 1869

"Proud and sincere, yet liberal and just, he refused to serve under the most humble of premiers."

$30

The Right Honourable
Chichester S. P. Fortescue
August 14, 1869

"He married Lady Waldegrave and governed Ireland."

$30

The Right Honourable
Henry Austin Bruce
August 21, 1869

"He has gained credit by converting himself to the Ballot; he would gain greater credit by converting himself into an ex-secretary of State for the Home Department."

$35

The Right Honourable
Austen Henry Layard
August 28, 1869

"He combines the love of truths and art with equal devotion and success."

$60

Lord Carnarvon
September 11, 1869

"The whole life of that great party to which I thought I had the honour to belong was nothing but a mere organized hypocrisy."

The Duke of Abercorn
September 25, 1869

"Promoted from a Viceroyalty to a Dukedom."

$50

Mr. M.E. Grant-Duff, M.P.
October 2, 1869

"A philosophic liberal."

$50

Mr. A. S. Ayrton, M.P.
October 23, 1869

"Mind and Morality."

$35

The Earl of Shaftesbury
November 13, 1869

"He is not as other men are, for he is never influenced by party motives."

$50

The Right Honourable Lord John J.R. Manners, M.P.
November 20, 1869

"Let arts and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility."

$45

M. Emile Ollivier
January 15, 1870

"The Pariliamentary Empire."

$38

Lord Chelmsford
February 5, 1870

"It is hard to be believed that two political leaders should fall out only because their wives cannot agree."

$32

Sir John Pakington
February 12, 1870

"He was Chairman of Quarter Sessions and reconstructed the Navy."

$32

Sir Robert Peel
March 19, 1870

"A professor of strong languages."

$45

The Duke of Richmond
March 26, 1870

"Highly respectable."

$30

Lord Dufferin
April 9, 1870

"an exceptional Irishman."

$45

Mr. Bernal Osborne
May 28, 1870

"The smart critic."

$35

Mr. W.G.G.V. Vernon-Harcourt, M.P.
June 4, 1870

"He was considered an able man till he assumed his own name."

$35

Mr. E.N. Knatchbull-Hugessen, M.P.
June 11, 1870

"A promising apprentice."

$30

The Earl of Dudley
June 18, 1870

"Property."

$30

Viscount Ranelagh
June 25, 1870

"He has succeeded in volunteering."

$30

Earl Spencer
July 2, 1870

"The Messenger of Peace."

$45

The Marquis of Westminster
July 16, 1870

"The richest man in England."

$50

The Marquis of Westminster
July 16, 1870

"The richest man in England."

$15
(see condition report)

Lord Elcho
July 23, 1870

"His course has been if not a wise, yet a consistent one, and dictated by conscience only."

$35

Lord Henry G. C.
Gordon-Lennox
July 30, 1870

"A man of Fashion and Politics."

$35

Mr. C. N. Newdegate
Aug. 13, 1870

"A Jesuit in disguise."

$45

Sir Henry L. E. Bulwer
Aug. 27, 1870

"A superannuated diplomat."

$28

Lord Houghton
Sept. 3, 1870

"The cool of the evening."

$34

Mr. Alexander J. Beresford-Hope
Sept. 10, 1870

"Batavian grace."

$45

Lord Robert Montagu
Oct. 1, 1870

"A Working Conservative."

$40

Sir Stafford Northcote
Oct. 8, 1870

"He does his duty to his party, and is fortunate if it happens to be also his duty to his country."

$35

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison
Nov. 26, 1870

$28
(slight damage, see enlargement)

also see Doctors & Scientists for possible availabilty

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(1871-1872)