Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

Date1872
Artist Arthur Hughes British painter and illustrator, 1832–1915
Illustration Citation"Vanity Fair" by Robert Buchanan, in Good Words, 1872
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
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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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