Title: Proof copy of Vanity Fair "Spy" print of S. Muir Fergusson Author: Ward, Leslie "Spy" Place: London Publisher: Vanity Fair Date: 1898 Description: Color print, mounted on card, label on back. 15¼x10¼. A rare proof of the Vanity Fair print by 'Spy' showing S. Muir Fergusson in full knickers, cap and holding a golf ball and club. On the reverse is an old attached label, which identifies this print is one "printed by hand before letters, of the Cartoons which appeared in Vanity Fair during the year 1898. Ten sets alone of these proofs (of which this is one) were drawn and are in existence. Vanity Fair Office, December , 1898. This is Copy # 1", and is signed in ink, Jehu Junior, the nickname of Thomas Gibson Bowles, founder and owner of Vanity Fair. Lot Amendments Condition: The print is mounted on board, and exhibits a light mat burn, else very good. Vanity Fair prints abound, but are rare in this limited state, and desirable as a golfing image. Item number: 223865
Title: Proof copy of Vanity Fair "Spy" print of S. Muir Fergusson Author: Ward, Leslie "Spy" Place: London Publisher: Vanity Fair Date: 1898 Description: Color print, mounted on card, label on back. 15¼x10¼. A rare proof of the Vanity Fair print by 'Spy' showing S. Muir Fergusson in full knickers, cap and holding a golf ball and club. On the reverse is an old attached label, which identifies this print is one "printed by hand before letters, of the Cartoons which appeared in Vanity Fair during the year 1898. Ten sets alone of these proofs (of which this is one) were drawn and are in existence. Vanity Fair Office, December , 1898. This is Copy # 1", and is signed in ink, Jehu Junior, the nickname of Thomas Gibson Bowles, founder and owner of Vanity Fair. Lot Amendments Condition: The print is mounted on board, and exhibits a light mat burn, else very good. Vanity Fair prints abound, but are rare in this limited state, and desirable as a golfing image. Item number: 223865
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