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Edwardian public figures, from the Earl of Lonsdale to the churchman Hensley Henson, are caught in sharp caricature in these...

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Edwardian public figures, from the Earl of Lonsdale to the churchman Hensley Henson, are caught in sharp caricature in these prints by Wallace Hester, drawn for Vanity Fair between 1911 and 1913 in the later years of its portrait tradition. The artist and engraver, recorded by the National Portrait Gallery as Richard Wallace Hester (circa 1867–1942), signed his work with forms including WH. Other sitters here include Henry Denison, Charles Jerningham, Robert Hadfield and William Hall Walker, their captions linking them with writing, the church, industry, military life and sport. Read together with dress and posture, those captions show how each sitter was introduced to the magazine's readers.

Edwardian public figures, from the Earl of Lonsdale to the churchman Hensley Henson, are caught in sharp caricature in these prints by Wallace Hester, drawn for Vanity Fair between 1911 and 1913 in the later years of its portrait tradition. The artist and engraver, recorded by the National Portrait Gallery as Richard Wallace Hester (circa 1867–1942), signed his work with forms including WH. Other sitters here include Henry Denison, Charles Jerningham, Robert Hadfield and William Hall Walker, their captions linking them with writing, the church, industry, military life and sport. Read together with dress and posture, those captions show how each sitter was introduced to the magazine's readers.

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