Copyright. Mr Justice Scrutton legal caricature. Ape junior

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Reproduced from lithograph of Justice Thomas Edward Scrutton, published on June 28, 1911 from a caricature by 'Ape junior'. Ape junior, who did 12 caricatures during the last few years of Vanity Fair magazine, was possibly the son of the first Vanity Fair caricaturist (Italian emigré, artist Carlo Pellegrini), who also signed his work "Ape".

In 1868 Thomas Gibson Bowles (1842-1922) founded Vanity Fair magazine with eight to ten pages each issue. Writing most of the regular editorial under various pseudonyms, Bowles's indiscriminate provocative and disarmingly fearless attitude gained a wide audience – and was beneficial to him during his later political career. Vanity Fair became immensely popular from 1869 on, after inclusion each week of one amusing lithographed caricature, parodying any newsworthy personage. While it became a point of pride with some to be the victim of one of the magazine's caricaturists, the caricatures were often responsible for the reputation of these hapless individuals. The most important artists were Carlo Pellegrini and Leslie Ward.

This larger series is more similar in style to the originial antique lithographs – both in colour and softer definition of image. Large margins all round… almost too large for the scanner. Page size approx. 325 x x 225mm (12 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches). Image size 280 x 170mm (11 x 6 5/8 inches).