Carlo Pellegrini, who did much of his work under the pseudonym of Ape, was an Italian-born British artist who served from 1869 to 1889 as a caricaturist for Vanity Fair magazine, a leading journal of
Pellegrini by Degas
Carlo Pellegrini, Vanity Fair magazine's 'Ape' by Arthur H. Marks
Thomas Henry Huxley
Arthur Sullivan
Benjamin Disraeli
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Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creat
Carlo Pellegrini (caricaturist)
…and he became its most influential artist; it printed his caricatures for over twenty years, from January 1869 to April 1889. His 1869 caricature of Benjamin Disraeli was the first colour lithograph to appear in the magazine, and proved immensely popular. It was the first of a highly successful series of more than…
Disraeli in 1878
Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli by Francis Grant. Disraeli as a young man—a retrospective portrayal painted in 1852
Friends and allies of Disraeli in the 1830s: clockwise from top left—Croker, Lyndhurst, Henrietta Sykes and Lady Londonderry
Mary Anne Lewis c. 1820–30