Author: Sir Leslie Matthew Ward (“Spy”)
Title: Sandown Park (Portrait of Hwfa Williams) (Original Lithograph)
Description: London: Vanity Fair, 1891. Original color lithograph, 15 x 10.5 inches. Very Good. Minor spot of foxing in bottom margin, else fine. One page biography of subject laid in. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Published on November 7, 1891, depicting Thomas Anthony Hwfa Williams (1849/50–1926), a British Army officer and racecourse manager. A figure of the Marlborough House Set, he was a close associate of the future King Edward VII, and his wife Mrs. Hwfa Williams (née Farquharson) a leader of the fashionable world. 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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