English music / Spy ; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith. – Historic Print
![English music / Spy ; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith., [1874] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/92/924d0d61f741-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This antique lithograph of English music / Spy ; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith. brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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English music / Spy ; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.
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Arthur Sullivan appears here as the subject of "English music," a Vanity Fair caricature by the artist known as Spy, Leslie Ward. The color lithograph was printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son and later reproduced in The Vanity Fair Album, the 1874 volume compiled under the name Jehu Junior. By the early 1870s Sullivan was an established English composer, and his comic operas with W. S. Gilbert would soon make him a household name. Vanity Fair's weekly portraits of prominent Victorians were widely read, so the print also shows how a composer was presented to London readers of the period.
| Created / published | [1874] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1870-1880.Caricatures 1870-1880.Lithographs Color 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Illus. in: The Vanity fair album : ... / by Jehu Junior. 1874, vol. 6, no. 81. |
| Subjects | Sullivan, Arthur,--Sir,--1842-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,154 × 1,479 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218526 |
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