Cecioni

Wilfrid Lawson, W. H. Smith and Sydney Waterlow are among the Victorian public figures caricatured in these prints by Adrian...

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Wilfrid Lawson, W. H. Smith and Sydney Waterlow are among the Victorian public figures caricatured in these prints by Adriano Cecioni (1836–1886), the Italian artist who contributed to Vanity Fair. All the examples here are dated 1872, which makes them easy to compare. Colman O'Loghlen, Lord Radstock and William Hepworth Dixon complete the named sitters, and the captions tie them to politics, religion, newspapers and civic office. Each portrait can be enjoyed for its likeness and for the clothing, gesture and pose through which Cecioni suggested character.

Wilfrid Lawson, W. H. Smith and Sydney Waterlow are among the Victorian public figures caricatured in these prints by Adriano Cecioni (1836–1886), the Italian artist who contributed to Vanity Fair. All the examples here are dated 1872, which makes them easy to compare. Colman O'Loghlen, Lord Radstock and William Hepworth Dixon complete the named sitters, and the captions tie them to politics, religion, newspapers and civic office. Each portrait can be enjoyed for its likeness and for the clothing, gesture and pose through which Cecioni suggested character.

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