Author: Carlo Pellegrini, Ape
Title: Our War Correspondence (Portrait of Sir William Howard Russell, Cvo) (Original Lithograph)
Description: London: Vanity Fair, 1875. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10.5 inches. Good. Foxing on the margins. Minor foxing on the upper and lower part of the image. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on January 16, 1875, depicting Sir William Howard Russell, CVO (28 March 1827 – 10 February 1907), an Irish reporter with The Times, and is considered to have been one of the first modern war correspondents. He spent 22 months covering the Crimean War, including the Siege of Sevastopol and the Charge of the Light Brigade. He later covered events during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the American Civil War, the Austro-Prussian War, and the Franco-Prussian War. His dispatches from Crimea to The Times are regarded as the world's first war correspondence. Vanity Fair was a British magazine known for its social, political, and literary content. It gained fame particularly for its caricatures of prominent figures of the time. These caricatures, drawn by renowned artists, captured the essence of their subjects with a mix of humor, satire, and artistry. .

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