Old Fashion Print of Men Illustrating the Fashion Trends of the Summer of 1898

Antique costume print titled 'Le Progrès'. Old fashion print of various men and women illustrating the fashion trends of November, 1898. Artists and Engravers: Published for 'La G...

Antique costume print titled 'Der Moderne Kleidermacher IX'. Old fashion print of two men wearing various outfits including long jackets/coats and hats. Artists and Engravers: Anony...

Antique costume print titled 'Le Progrès'. Old fashion print of various men and women illustrating the fashion trends of May, 1898. Artists and Engravers: Published for 'La Gazett...

Antique print titled 'Der Moderne Kleidermacher XII'. German fashion print, published circa 1900. Four men showing various outfits (incl. long jackets/coats), all wearing hats.

French men's fashion design from 'La Revue de l'Homme' a Parisien fashion periodical. 370mm by 270mm (sheet)

[English Gentlemen], from Vanity Fair chromolithograph, on wove papers. Printed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son., with various dates from 1875 to 1897. Professionally framed with black and gilt frames and beige silk mats, with margins, apparently in excellent condition, not examined out of the frames. Vanity Fair was a weekly magazine published in London, founded & edited by Thomas Gibson Bowles. His aim was to expose to contemporary vanities of Victorian society. From 1868 to 1914, full page colour lithographs appeared in most weekly issues, frequently lampooning or lauding their subjects which included artists, athletes, royalty, politicians, scientists, authors, actors, sportsmen, lawyers, diplomats, soldiers, clergy, scholars and other celebrities of the day - mostly British, but also many other internationally significant personalities. Over 2,300 of these colour cartoons were printed, and they are considered the chief cultural legacy of the magazine, forming a pictorial record of many of the most significant public figures of the period. They are renowned throughout the world and highly collectible and recognisable. Famous artists contributed to Vanity Fair, typically under pen names. The best remembered today is Leslie Ward (1851-1922), who signed his works as "Spy", and whose caricatures account for well over half of those featured in Vanity Fair. So famous have these fabulous prints become, Vanity Fair caricatures today often are referred to simply as "Spy Cartoons...

French men's fashion design from 'La Revue de l'Homme' a Parisien fashion periodical. 370mm by 270mm (sheet)

French men's fashion design from 'La Revue de l'Homme' a Parisien fashion periodical. 370mm by 270mm (sheet)