Author: Carlo Pellegrini (Ape)
Title: Pour Encourager Les Autres (Portrait of Sir James Stansfeld) (Original Lithograph)
Description: London: Vanity Fair, 1869. Original color lithograph, 14 x 9 inches. Very Good+. Minor foxing in top margin. One page biography of subject laid in. Scarce. Published on April 10, 1869, depicting Sir James Stansfeld, GCB (5 March 1820 – 17 February 1898), a British Radical and Liberal politician and social reformer who served as Under-Secretary of State for India (1866), Financial Secretary to the Treasury (1869–71) and President of the Poor Law Board (1871) before being appointed the first President of the Local Government Board (1871–74 and 1886). 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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