The Umpire, Vanity Fair , March 28, 1885, Print Spy

The Umpire. Spy, Vanity Fair judge in wig.
by Leslie Ward (Spy)

Spy (Leslie Ward) caricature for Vanity Fair magazine. The Honourable Sir Joseph William Chitty (1828-1899), originally published in Vanity Fair on March 28, 1885. Spy was the pseudonym of prolific and popular caricaturist, Sir Leslie Ward (1851-1922) (knighted in 1918).

In 1868 Thomas Gibson Bowles (1842-1922) founded Vanity Fair magazine with eight to ten pages each issue. Writing most of the regular editorial under various pseudonyms, Bowles's indiscriminate provocative and disarmingly fearless attitude gained a wide audience - and was beneficial to him during his later political career. Vanity Fair became immensely popular from 1869 on, after inclusion each week of one amusing lithographed caricature, parodying any newsworthy personage. While it became a point of pride with some to be the victim of one of the magazine's caricaturists, the caricatures were often responsible for the reputation of these hapless individuals. The most important artists were Carlo Pellegrini and Leslie Ward.

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