Vanity Fair "Spy" Prints of famous doctors and scientists original "Spy" prints, lithographs

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We sell original Vanity Fair prints (lithographs), not reproductions.
Vanity Fair prints are usually about 10½ by 15½ inches, varying somewhat by year
and publisher over the 45 years of the magazine's life.

Whenever possible, we provide the original descriptive text or a copy thereof.

VANITY FAIR "Spy" PRINTS ~ DOCTORS AND SCIENTISTS

Vanity Fair "Spy" Print Categories

Accountants

Ambassadors from England

Ambassadors to England

Americans

Architects and Engineers

Artists

Automobilists/Balloonists

Aviators

Bankers and Financiers

Billiards

Boxers

Businessmen and Empire Builders

Carriage Drivers

Chancellors of the Exchequer

Doctors and Scientists

Dog Judge

Doubles/Groups

Duelling

Explorers and Inventors

Proofs before lettering

Stock Exchange Officials

Trade Union Officials

Turf Devotees

Wagerers

Yachting

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison

Nov. 15, 1870

"A Faithful Friend, an eminent Savant, and the best possible of Presidents"

$35

Sir William Fergusson, BART.

Dec. 17, 1870

"There is no man of greater weight in his profession"

$32

Professor Huxley

Jan. 28, 1871

"A great Med'cine-Man among the Inqui-ring Redskins"

Mr. Charles R. Darwin

Sept. 30, 1871

"Natural Selection"

Dr. Quinn

Jan. 20, 1872

"Homeopathic Society."

$50

Professor John Tyndall, F.R.S.

Feb. 6, 1872

"The Scientific Use of the Imagination"

$35

Professor Richard Owen

March 1, 1873

"Old Bones."

$75

Sir William Jenner, BART., K.C.B.

April 26, 1873

"Physic."

$36

Sir Henry Thompson

Aug. 1, 1874

"Cremation"

$25

Mr Oscar Clayton

Sept 12, 1874

"fashionable surgery"

$50

Dr Lyon Playfair

Feb. 20, 1875

"Chemistry"

$40

Sir George Biddell Airy, K.C.B.

Nov. 13, 1875

"Astronomy"

Sir William Withey Gull, BART., M.D.

Dec. 18, 1875

"Physiological Physic"

$55

Mr James Manby Gully, M.D.

Aug. 5, 1876

"Hydropathy"

$30

Lord Lindsay, M.P.

May 11, 1878

"Astronomy"

$35

Mr. Herbert Spencer

April 26, 1879

"Philosophy"

$36

Mr. Erasmus Wilson, M.R.C.S.

Dec. 18, 1880

"the Obelisk."

$55

Sir John Bennet Lawes, BART.

July 8, 1882

"Agricultural Science"

Lord Walsingham

Sept. 9, 1882

"a Naturalist"

$30

Mr. Richard Anthony Proctor,
B.A., F.R.A.S.

March 3, 1883

"Astronomy"

$32

The Earl of Leicester, K.G.

Aug. 4, 1883

"Agriculture"

$42

Mr. Richard Quain, M.D., F.R.S.

Dec. 15, 1883

"Lord Beaconsfield's Physician "

M. Louis Pasteur

Jan. 8, 1887

"Hydrophobia"

$145

Sir Morell MacKenzie, Knt.

Oct. 15, 1887

"Disease of the Throat"

$45

The Earl Cathcart

April 14, 1888

"He has devoted his life to husbandry, and has nine children"

$30

Mr. Charles Kearns Deane Tanner. B.A., M.D., F.R.C.S.I., L.K.Q.C.P.I., L.R.C.S.I., M.P.

Aug. 4, 1888

"the blister."

$50

Sir William Bartlett Dalby,
Knight, M.P., M.A., F.R.C.S.

Dec. 22, 1888

"the ear"

$60

Sir. W. Tindal Robertson

Feb. 16, 1889

"Brighton"

$42

Mr. Frank Crisp

May 31, 1890

"Mr. Frank Crisp"

Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson

Sept. 27, 1890

"Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson"

$65

Professor John Hall Gladstone, Ph.D., F.R.S.

Nov. 14, 1891

"Chemistry & Optics"

$25
(see light scuff mark)

Professor John Hall Gladstone, Ph.D., F.R.S.

Nov. 14, 1891

"Chemistry & Optics"

$35

Robert Brudenell Carter, F.R.C.S.

April 9, 1892

"a Literary Oculist"

$50

Dr Samuel Wilks

Oct. 1, 1892

"Philosophical Pathology"

$35

Dr. John Scott Burdon Sanderson

May 7, 1894

"Oxford Physiology"

$35

Sir Balthazar Walter Foster, M.P., M.S., D.C.L.

Oct. 11, 1894

"The Ilkeston Division"

$45

Dr. Robert Farquharson, M.P.

May 30, 1895

"West Aberdeenshire"

$40

Dr Leander Starr Jameson, CB

April 9. 1896

"Dr. Jim"

$45

Sir William Mac Cormac, P.R.C.S.

Oct. 1. 1896

"Gun Shot Wounds"

$25

Mr. John Lawson Johnston

Feb. 18, 1897

"Dietetics"

$40

Lord Kelvin

April 29, 1897

"Natural Philosophy"

Mr. Alfred Cooper, F.R.C.S.

Dec. 30, 1897

"Alfred"

$32

Sir Henry Charles Burdett, K.C.B.

July 14, 1898

"Hospitals"

Sir Oswald Mosely

Sept. 1, 1898

"John Bull"

$50

Sir James John Trevor Lawrence, BART.

Jan. 26, 1899

"Horticlture"

$55

Lord Rayleigh, D.C.L., F.R.S.

Dec. 21, 1899

"Argon"

$70

Dr Nathaniel Edward Yorke-Davies

April 13, 1900

"Dietetics"

$35
(see condition notes)

Frederick Treves

July 19, 1900

"Freddie"
['Elephant Man' doctor]

$35

Surgeon-General Jameson, M.D., C.B., Q.H.S., LL.D

Aug. 1, 1901

"Army Medical"

(see enlargement for
condition notes)

Dr Robert Henry Scanes Spicer

March 20, 1902

"rhinology"

$40

Sir Felix Semon, M.D., F.R.C.P.

May 1, 1902

"Laryngology"

$42

Sir William Henry Broadbent, K.C.V.O., M.D., F.R.C.P., LL.D., F.R.S.

Oct. 30, 1902

"orthodoxy"

$40

Sir Francis Henry Laking, BART., G.C.V.O., M.D.

Feb 19, 1903

"the King's physician"

$50

Sir William Huggin

April 9, 1903

"Spectroscopic Astronomy"

$40

Sir Richard Douglas Powell. BART., K.C.V.O., M.D., F.R.C.P., M.R.C.S.

May 28, 1904

"Chests"

$40

The Hon. Sydney Holland

Aug. 25, 1904

"How much?"

$38

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim

Dec. 15, 1904

"In the Clouds."

M and Mme Curie

Dec. 22, 1904

"Radium"

$150

Professor Ray Lankester, F.R.S.

Jan. 12, 1905

"His religion is the worship of all sorts of winged and finny freaks."

$55

Sir Robert Ball

April 13, 1905

"popular Astronomy"

$60

Sir Anderson Critchett

May 18, 1905

"the King's oculist"

$40
(see enlargement)

Sir Thomas Barlow

April 12,1906

"Physician to His Majesty's Household"

$40
(see enlargement)

Sir Alfred Fripp

Sept. 18, 1907

"A Master of the knife."

Sir Boverton Redwood, DSc, FRSE

March 25, 1908

"Petroleum."

$40

Sir David L. Salomons, Bt., M.A., M.I.E.E.

June 17, 1908

"Electricity"

$50

The Earl of Crawford

August 12, 1908

"The Transit of Venus"

$40

Sir William Ramsay, KCB

Dec 2, 1908

"Chemistry."

$45

Mr H A Barker

Dec 8, 1909

"Bones."

$35

Dr John Bland-Sutton, FRCS

Feb 3, 1910

"A Great Surgeon."

$35

The Hon. Stephen Coleridge

July 27, 1910

"Anti-Vivisection."

$40

Mr. William Spiers Simpson

Sept 28, 1910

"Science and Invention."

$45

Emile Garcke

Nov 10, 1910

"Electrical Energy"

$40

Sir Alfred Pearce Gould, K.C.V.O., M.S., F.R.C.S.

Sept. 27, 1911

"Surgical Diagnosis"

$50

Dr T. R. Allinson

Oct. 4, 1911

"Wholemeal Bread."

$45

Sir George Henry Savage, MD, FRCP

Feb 7, 1912

"Mens Sana."

Mr. Rhys-Williams

Oct. 29, 1913

"Rhys, K.C."

$65

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