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A Reader of The Sporting Times by Joseph Clayton Clark, c. 1900
The paper was printed on pink paper
Henry Tufton, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 17 August 1889
He was a British peer, Liberal politician and prominent owner and breeder of racehorses.
Carlo Pellegrini, by Arthur H Marks. - Vanity Fair, 27 April 1889
Pellegrini, who did much of his work under the pseudonym of Ape, was an Italian artist who served from 1869 to 1889 as a caricaturist for Vanity Fair magazine. He died of lung disease aged 49 at his home in 1889
John Bright, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 6 April 1889
He was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, one of the greatest orators of his generation and a promoter of free trade policies.
Modern Idol, 1911, by Umberto Boccioni
My favourite of all his work. I could not tell you why.
Archibald Levin Smith, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 3 November 1888
He was a British judge and a rower who competed at Henley and in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.
Polydore de Keyser, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 26 November 1887
He was a lawyer and the first Roman Catholic since the Reformation to be elected Lord Mayor of London (October 1887–November 1888). He was born in the Belgian city of Dendermonde, near Ghent, Belgium.
William Ewart Gladstone, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 5 November 1887
He served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four non-consecutive terms beginning in 1868 and ending in 1894.
Lord Coleridge, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 5 March 1887
John Duke Coleridge was an English lawyer, judge and Liberal politician. Despite his health failing towards the end of his life he remained in this office until his death on 14 June 1894, aged 74.
Louis Pasteur, by Théobald Chartran - Vanity Fair, 8 January 1887
Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization.