Vanity fair. p. 1 posters & prints

Vanity Fair: Statesman No. 26 'When Birth cannot lead, Brains must.', 1869 Carlo Pellegrini

Vanity Fair: Statesman, No. 23 'He is too honest a Tory for his party and time', 1869 Carlo Pellegrini

Vanity Fair cover Georges Lepape

I say the critic must keep out of the region of immediate practice Coide

Education and Arbitration Coide

Frank Hedges Butler Leslie Matthew (1851-1922) Ward

John Evelyn Watts, British jockey Ao

Vanity Fair: Men of the Day No. 14 'A Faithful Friend, an eminent Savant …', 1870 Carlo Pellegrini

Vanity Fair: Men of the Day, No. 39 'The Novelist who invented Sensation', 1872 Adriano Cecioni

William Makepeace Thackeray Anonymous

Giuseppe Verdi Theobald Chartran

Telegraphs Coide

'He has Succeeded in Volunteering', Viscount Ranelagh Carlo Pellegrini

The Letter before Waterloo William Makepeace Thackeray

Louis Pasteur, French chemist and founder of modern bacteriology, 1887 Unknown

Portrait of Leon Gambetta Anonymous

The Spanish Minister Coide

A Judicial Churchman Leslie Matthew Ward

Henry Cole, British designer, civil servant and writer, 1871 Unknown

Natural Selection Coide

'The London School Board', the Marquess of Londonerry FTD

A Commissioner Coide

'St Margaret's', the Reverend Herbert Hensley Henson, British clergyman WH

Max, caricature of Max Beerbohm Walter Richard Sickert

'H A C', the Earl of Denbigh Spy

Now I want to know Coide

A Conservative Whip Carlo Pellegrini

Vanity Fair: Men of the Day, No. 2 'He suppressed an isthmus', 1869 Anonymous

John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, British physiologist, 1894 Spy

Earl of Derby, portrait by Apey. London, England, 1869 Anonymous

King Cole Coide

'Fulham', William Hayes Fisher, British politician Spy

A Great Officer of State Spy

'The Heir of the Ages', James Payn, English novelist Carlo Pellegrini

William Huggins, British astronomer and spectroscopist, 1903 Spy

William Crookes, British physicist and chemist, 1903 Spy