Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

Date1872
Artist (British painter and illustrator, 1832–1915)
MediumBlack ink, watercolor, and gouache on illustration board
Dimensions6 5/8 × 4 1/2 in. (16.8 × 11.4 cm)
frame: 22 5/16 × 18 7/16 in. (56.7 × 46.8 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 1982
Object number1982-35
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextArthur Hughes was one of the most prolific illustrators within the Pre-Raphaelite circle. This image accompanied a poem of the same title by Robert Buchanan (1841-1901) which appeared in the popular periodical, Good Words. Buchanan would later become notorious among the Pre-Raphaelites for his attack on Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s poems in an article entitled “The Fleshly School of Poetry.”

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