Roland L'Estrange

'Berks and Bucks' Vanity Fair cartoon by Roland "Ao" / "Armadillo" L'Estrange

1903

Sir Leslie 'Spy' Ward for Vanity Fair Magazine The Huntsman 1 November 1884 Lithograph Depicting Thomas Firr, Huntsman of the Quorn, on the day of the se...

Cuthbert "CB" Bradley for Vanity Fair Magazine "A Judge" - The Rev Cecil Legard 11 July 1901 Lithograph 21 x 37 cm CB's cartoon depicts The Rev Cecil Legard (1843-1918), the Rector of Cottesbrooke and heir to the baronetcy. As well as a clergyman, Legard was a noted sportsman and hound expert; he was a steeplechase rider, and also edited the Foxhound Kennel Stud Book. CB depicts him judging hounds, excellently outfitted; as the biography on the reverse of the mounted lithograph notes, he might be 'the best judge of a foxhound in England'. A copy of the cartoon is held by the Kingston Lacy Estate in Dorset. Cuthbert Bradley was also a sporting man - he famously authored 'Fox-Hunting from Shire to Shire with Many Noted Packs' and worked as a sporting journalist for The Field. As well as illustrating for Vanity Fair, he painted polo and foxhunting scenes, and other pictures of equestrian interest. The majority of his Vanity Fair cartoons are of hunting men. The Vanity Fair magazine of 1868 to 1914 was subtitled 'A Weekly Show of Political, Social and Literary Wares'. Founded by Thomas Gibson...

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Early Twentieth Century Victorian Watercolour Landscape of a Fulling Mill on the River Teme, Ludlow. A rare view of the Mill on Ludford Bridge before the first of the two fires that...

Victorian Romantic Landscape Mountain Sunset View framed Oil on Canvas by Frank Hider, renowned for his romantic and dramatic Landscapes often painted in pairs at dawn and dusk. He ...

Victorian Maritime Oil Painting of HMS Ganges anchored off Falmouth with Sailors alighting and on deck with Sailing Boats. Oil on artists card, laid on board and framed in its orig...